[fedora-india] I have an idea for GSOC12 but no idea how to implement it.
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
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