[aur-general] [RFC] No compress aur packages before installing

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag at gmail.com> wrote:
> When yaourt install packages from AUR, he do this steps:
> [1]. Download archive file with PKGBUILD to install
> [2]. Extract package and do compile || download & etc
> [3]. Compress package to install it with using packman
> [4]. Run pacman
> [5]. Pacman >extract< files, and install hims.
>
> I think if we can remove [3], this is speed up installing || upgrading
> process from AUR.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Timofey.

Compression is not mandatory. I don't to this, I use a tar archive:

$ grep PKGEXT /etc/makepkg.conf
PKGEXT='.pkg.tar'


yaourt is just one of the available AUR helpers. It's not being
developed by Arch developers. You can suggest changes upstream
http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en