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#1 2018-02-11 04:57:08
- Sol33t303
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Where does pacaur keep it's configuration files for programs?
I recently installed ewbf-miner using pacaur. The program comes with a configuration file that you use to specify what pool your using, which GPUs to use, the intensity, etc. Where would I find the configuration file?
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#2 2018-02-11 04:59:48
- jasonwryan
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Re: Where does pacaur keep it's configuration files for programs?
Read the PKGBUILD: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … ewbf-miner
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#3 2018-02-11 06:44:43
- eschwartz
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Re: Where does pacaur keep it's configuration files for programs?
1) *pacaur* doesn't keep the configuration file, the ewbf-miner package does.
2) That PKGBUILD is horrible. If an installation message truly needs to be echoed to the user, it should not be done in package() but as part of a post_install script.
Managing AUR repos The Right Way -- aurpublish (now a standalone tool)
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#4 2018-02-11 06:44:59
- Sol33t303
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Re: Where does pacaur keep it's configuration files for programs?
Thank you, I feel dumb now because I have heard people say to read that file to make sure it's not installing anything you don't want to. I haven't been worried about installing anything that's bad yet because I have only been installing fairly well-known software so I would presume that if something wasn't right somebody else would have noticed very quickly. I didn't realize that the file had other stuff like that in it though. Thanks for the help 
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#5 2018-02-11 06:51:38
- Sol33t303
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Re: Where does pacaur keep it's configuration files for programs?
1) *pacaur* doesn't keep the configuration file, the ewbf-miner package does.
2) That PKGBUILD is horrible. If an installation message truly needs to be echoed to the user, it should not be done in package() but as part of a post_install script.
Yeah, that does sound like it would be a much better idea, during installation I decided to do other stuff on my PC as it was installing so I missed those messages.
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