On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Xyne <[email protected]> wrote: > nathan duane <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a suggestion, it would be nice to have a text editor for the AUR > page > > so u could edit your PKGBUILDs without having to download then resubmit > > I think that's an interesting idea and it should only need a few tweaks > to the code that displays the PKGBUILDs already (wrap the output in a > text area, add it to a form and then handle the POST data). > > If we added this then changed the AUR so that any registered user could > edit any orphaned package online, it might encourage drive-by updates. > This would not present any new security concerns because any registered > user can already adopt a package, edit it, upload it then disown it. On > the other hand, not having to jump through those hoops might encourage > people to update it on the spot.
This might make such drive-by updates so easy that, since users would no longer have to download the package data at all, they would submit their edits without even bothering to compile-test them. At least now it's likely that most people would at least run makepkg since it's only a single extra step once you have it all downloaded and updated.
