On Friday 03 December 2010 19:46:10 keenerd wrote: > Officially, the tarballs uploaded to the AUR should be named after > their package, contain a directory named after their package, contain > no dot files and most importantly contain no binaries. Officially, > these requirements are very important. > > Here are a bunch of non-conforming packages. Maybe 90% of them. (A > few errors slip though my scanner.) > > Of the +700 packages with binaries, most are a simple desktop icon. > Should these be base64 encoded if someone can't find hosting? > > If no one can think of a better way to deal with the nonconforming > packages, I'll write a bot to post insulting comments. Personally, I > really like this solution. The AUR has always had a wild west > frontier / insane asylum feel to it. The less regulation, the better > it works. But a few well placed suggestions could help make the two > thousand maintainers do a better job. > > -Kyle > > http://kmkeen.com >
please send insults, i'll find my eventually wrong packages faster :p
