Hi, I don't know how many of you have used Arch Linux, but there's this frontend to pacman (their package manager) called yaourt which uses AUR (Arch User Repository) which takes in PKGBUILDS and compiles packages locally.
From Archwiki: "The Arch User Repository[1] (AUR) is a community-driven repository for Arch users. It contains package descriptions (PKGBUILDs) that allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via pacman." The benefit of this is: 1. You cut down on hosting as the PKGBUILD only contains instructions to download from the original file repo. As an example check PKGBUILD for lightdm[2]. 2. A package could be put into something like the AUR before it is pushed to a more stable repo. Opinions? Thanks! Funfact: If you consider AUR, Arch Linux has ~35020 packages which are more than those in Debian Unstable (~30500) [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/li/lightdm/PKGBUILD -- Anuj Visit: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Anujmore Promoting: (pro-GNU/Linux) http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm (GNU/Linux's not Windows) _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
