On 11/17/2015 03:40 AM, IngeGNUe wrote: > FWIW just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I feel that making > changes to the AUR, especially a whitelist, would be very annoying. > IMO, the AUR is the place where guarantees cannot be made about the > quality of a package, where packages are not supported, etc. The user > is supposed to install at their own risk, examining the software > *before* installing it. >
I think an AUR whitelist would be a useful tool in examining the software. Of course, this is all theoretical and it seems noone is going to create an AUR whitelist in the near future. > If we need to remove a whole repo to save disk space, maybe we could > just create a wiki page of recommendations and warnings about AUR > packages? > We have that already: https://wiki.parabola.nu/List_of_Applications (AUR packages are not marked as AUR; it is necessary to check the links.) _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
