[aur-general] AUR and deb or other precompiled stuff

[Allan McRae]

On 04/06/10 18:28, Ike Devolder wrote:
> in some recent updates of some packages you see more and more deb's or rpms
> or whatever being extracted and repacked for arch
>
> is there some aur guideline about this, i really don't like this development
> because why not take advantage of our bleeding edge gcc power
>
> if the source is there, why not build from it?
>
> in cases like opera it is understandable because it is not open source, but
> in some other cases like kalsamix i find it very disturbing
>
> maybe some other comments about this ?
>

I agree.  Everything should be built from source where possible.

Allan