Am Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:20:01 +0100 schrieb Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]>:
> I basically agree. The AUR is unsupported and has nothing to do with > Arch Linux or the [community] repository. Since when doesn't have AUR anything to do with Arch Linux or [community] repo? AUR is totally Arch Linux related and can only be used with Arch Linux. And [community] repo is the repo where AUR packages go when they got enough votes and a TU interested in maintaining them. > Both of them have more than 100 votes but are not > moved since we don't want alternative package managers in the repos. > There's no other convincing reason for that. They are just > unsupported. AUR wrappers are not added to the repos for security reasons as far as I know. It's because users may tend to not reading and validating the PKGBUILDs and install scripts, which can be uploaded to AUR by everyone without being validated by a dev or TU, if they use such a wrapper. Keyword: rm -rf / Maybe they are also not added because neither devs nor TUs can ensure that they are always working correctly. I'm not sure if there are other reasons, too. > Moreover, if people use packages from the AUR so extensively that they > need AUR helpers, they should be fine with building one more package > from source, shouldn't they? (Don't take that last sentence too > serious. Please.) In this point I agree. Heiko
