On 11/17/15 02:03, Florian Pelz wrote: > 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. >
Yeah, I see the value in providing such a tool actually -- as long as it is just provided as an optional package. In an ideal world, I would just keep the PCR and add more disk space! If I could send a hard drive I would. >> 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.) Cool :) > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
