On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@barrera.io wrote:
This is really inconsistent with all of the other package variables, so I'd
just like to propose we move this from merely being AUR metadata to the
PKGBUILDS themselves, adding a category variable to them, eg:
On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a
few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless.
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:07 PM, lolilolicon loliloli...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@barrera.io wrote:
This is
On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 23:13:04 Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a
few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless.
I personally try to put things in the proper category, but I would also second
just dropping
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Tai-Lin Chu tailin...@gmail.com wrote:
On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a
few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless.
Completely agreed, except I'd say there is no such thing as correct
category...
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Am 04.09.2014 um 07:29 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera:
An example of these meta packages is meta-group-base-devel, which is an
empty
package that has all the packages in base-devel as dependencies.
This helps me keep things like pacman -Qen short and readable, and also make
sure that all my
What happens if something really belongs in two categories? In that case,
one should use a tagging mechanism instead of a categorization mechanism.
On the other hand, I think we should remove category because only a
few packages actually use correct category. It is almost useless.
+1
— Jeremy
If you're serious about using a custom package across all your systems in a
native way, one option is to add a new paragraph into /etc/pacman.conf:
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
I added vim-colors-lettuce to replace vim-lettuce. The original vim-lettuce
package is now obsolete.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vim-lettuce/
On 2014-09-04 14:07, lolilolicon wrote:
How about tags=(awesome cool game)? /sarcasm
Well, my goal is to sometime be able to search installed packages quickly.
I have installed some games of which I can't recall their names, and there's
really no quick way to search for them in pacman - that
On 2014-09-05 02:59, carstene1ns wrote:
Am 05.09.2014 um 00:51 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera:
[...]if they can be parsed by pacman somehow, they would add some use.
Otherwise, I'm ok
with deleting them.
pacman has no AUR support, this was a decision. So the only way to allow
it to see
still we have tons of packages that do not follow category. Searching
by category is ineffective.
I think the best way to know about package is to let users write aur
packages reviews for the packages they love.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@barrera.io wrote:
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