On 6 May 2011 21:13, keenerd <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/6/11, Ray Rashif <[email protected]> wrote: >> Let me just confirm this: it is the first of its kind, in that it >> "communicates" with the AUR. There is no other tool in the repos that >> makes a connection to the AUR, right? > > Well that depends. Do you count community/arch-firefox-search, which > does a full search of the AUR? (On an unrelated note, why is > searching the AUR in a GUI officially supported but searching it from > the CLI a mortal sin?)
Yes, I'd count that. Now, on the unrelated note: the search engine is for a web browser, and is in line with the AUR web interface. This interaction with the AUR is "indirect". That is why it is _not_ on a grey area. A tool searching from the CLI (with which one has "direct" access), is on a grey area. That is IMO; no consensus has been reached with regards to whether searching can be accepted/supported (officially) - only discussions. > Aurphan does not search the AUR, it organizes info about the AUR > packages you already have installed. It does not imply AUR packages > are supported, it asks you to volunteer support for them. Yes, it initiates a connection to the AUR, that is all. I have nothing against this myself, so +1. -- GPG/PGP ID: 8AADBB10
