On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Callan Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Additionally, the AUR is going to need to be able to import or use >> info from the main package DBs in this case. This gives us a lot of >> advantages, but forces us to couple some things. Unless, of course, >> you wanted to go the route the main site went: parse a db.tar.gz file >> and put the data into the DBs. > > I suppose I'm missing something here. If we moved community to a > normal repo why would the AUR have any notion of what the main repos > are and what they contain? I'm thinking of stuff like checking for > duplicates packages but I don't know if that's what you're talking > about.
I was thinking in terms of linking deps properly on the package pages. Not sure how that's done now. Though, the "checking for duplicate packages" might be a good idea too 8)
