On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Timofey Titovets <[email protected]> wrote: > When yaourt install packages from AUR, he do this steps: > [1]. Download archive file with PKGBUILD to install > [2]. Extract package and do compile || download & etc > [3]. Compress package to install it with using packman > [4]. Run pacman > [5]. Pacman >extract< files, and install hims. > > I think if we can remove [3], this is speed up installing || upgrading > process from AUR. > > -- > Best regards, > Timofey.
Compression is not mandatory. I don't to this, I use a tar archive: $ grep PKGEXT /etc/makepkg.conf PKGEXT='.pkg.tar' yaourt is just one of the available AUR helpers. It's not being developed by Arch developers. You can suggest changes upstream http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en
