On Tue 22 Feb 2011 02:31 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 22 February 2011 02:06, Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:03:38AM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: > >> On 21 February 2011 18:08, Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:47:50 +0100 > >> > Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> The official Arch Linux AUR setup has been upgraded to 1.8.0. For a > >> >> short list of changes, read [1]. > >> >> > >> >> Please report any issues on the AUR bug tracker [2]. > >> >> > >> >> [1] > >> >> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2011-February/001433.html > >> >> [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2 > >> > > >> > what's the reasoning behind no longer showing all files in the "source > >> > package"? I found this feature quite useful. > >> > >> I've _always_ used this, almost on every package I came across. I > >> don't want to be downloading anything I just want to take a rough look > >> at. Would be good to have this back in some way or another. > >> Brainstorm! > > > > Did you read all my replies on this topic? If you still think that this > > should be implemented no matter what, you'd better open a feature > > request on the bug tracker. > > You do not really address this issue aside from shrugging it off as an > unneeded feature that costs one or two vulnerabilities. If it was > really that useless it would not have been implemented in the first > place. The loopholes are real, but the feature should not be > forgotten. > > I will leave it up to the community to file a request to have this > back, because with that we can really see whether it actually is as > useful as a few of us claim :)
As another AUR developer I will echo Lukas' statements. Actually, even if there were no security issues I would support this change one hundred percent. Functionality needs to be moved to the clients for the better future of the AUR. Let's not think of the AUR as a mere webapp. I understand that there will be some growing pains, some users may not really like or understand why certain changes are being made. I did anticipate this, and that's one reason why I asked that the PKGBUILD still be available for easy viewing. Think of it as a screenshot - it will give you a glimpse into the package but not the whole idea. You will need to download it for that.
