[aur-general] Subdirectories: is my workaround acceptable?

[eNV25]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 9:33 PM Leonidas Spyropoulos via aur-general
<aur-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On 16/06/2022 17:42, Claudia Pellegrino via aur-general wrote:
> > Hi fellow AUR maintainers,
>
> Hello Claudia,
>
> > [..]
> > I started working around that limitation by including a tarball [2] with
> > my PKGBUILDs instead of a .vscode directory. While aurweb would have
> > rejected that directory, it does accept the tarball.
>
> The AUR is for hosting the PKGBUILD files and any patches / sources
> required to build those. Supplementary files such as IDE settings etc
> should not be there because they are not required for building said
> packages.
>
> Cheers,
> Leonidas
>
> --
> Leonidas Spyropoulos
> PGP: 59E43E106B247368
>

You can keep such settings in the parent directory. e.g. if you have
an aur package in `~/aur/pkgname` you can keep your vscode settings in
`~/aur/.vscode`.

You can also optionally use something like aurpublish to make such a
setup easier.

https://github.com/eli-schwartz/aurpublish

https://github.com/eNV25/pkgs