On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:29:45AM -0600, Troy Engel wrote: > When a package has hundreds of votes, what keeps it from getting > promoted into Community? I'm talking specifically about cower: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cower/ > > Bootstrapping AUR on fresh installs is manual, what's the reason cower > hasn't been promoted to Community so it's easy to install with pacman > and have AUR usable out-of-the-box? (apologies if this has been > discussed before and I'm opening some sort of hornet's nest) > > -te It appears that there are intentionally no AUR helpers in the official repo.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR: > Warning: There is not and will never be an official mechanism for > installing build material from the AUR. All AUR users should be familiar > with the build process. Cower is a little different since it does not automate the building, but the idea seems to apply.
