On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM, keenerd <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/6/11, Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: >> You probably want to grab the tarballs, and extract what's in those. >> The next release of the AUR will only have tarballs and PKGBUILDs. >> The other files won't be extracted. > > Hey, you are stealing my idea! :-) AUR3 does that, and it saves > several hundred megabytes. Completely worth it. > > -Kyle > http://kmkeen.com >
I fail to see how this is worth it, imo, a better system is to convert to git and not track the src.tar.gz Is there a good reason for this switch? To save 450mb is not a good reason imo, for an incomplete listing of all the files. -Thomas
