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wavenator

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Registered: 2007-12-03

Posts: 62

why wont you add yaourt for

why wont you put yaourt in the installation cd
it is very useful
and i think it can be in the installation cd

and it it very thin

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 9,939

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Re: why wont you add yaourt for

It is probably because that would make the AUR appear to be an official developer approved repository and it isn't.  Then people will get complacent when using the uploaded PKGBUILDs and one day a malicious one will appear and the devs will get blamed... People are never happy.

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theringmaster

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From: Air Force

Registered: 2007-07-16

Posts: 581

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Re: why wont you add yaourt for

yeah it should at least be bumped to community. I couldn't live without it. Also check out tupac. It's a cached version of yaourt.

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bender02

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: why wont you add yaourt for

Allan is right. I think it makes sense not to include any tool for AUR, since at least the installation of that tool (eg yaourt) should force people to learn a bit about AUR and its status.

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: why wont you add yaourt for

Just for educational purposes read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Com … candidates
The list is out of date but the yaourt entry is still valid

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 838

Re: why wont you add yaourt for

this has been discussed before and I haven't even been here that long. Yaourt allows people to compile and install unsupported code.

This program will never make it into the community repository because of the destructiveness this program can cause.

Personally I don't want it in the community repository, if yaourt had been in community repos. when I started using arch I would have never learned a thing about the pkgbuild, AUR, ABS system and arch in general.

remember arch is supposed to be a 'simple', 'elegant', and 'fast' distro. Adding tools like yaourt just makes it more bulky like any other distro, which is not the design goal of arch.

Now stop complaining and just be happy yaourt was coded for your pleasure in the first place.

neotuli

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From: San Francisco, CA

Registered: 2004-07-06

Posts: 1,201

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Re: why wont you add yaourt for

Yeah this one's been discussed to death, and it aint happening, for pretty much all the reasons everyone said.

If you're in doubt, consider that I will make it my personal duty to e-dropkick anyone that adds it to a binary repo. And by that I mean, it'll never happen

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zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: why wont you add yaourt for

this has been discussed before and I haven't even been here that long. Yaourt allows people to compile and install unsupported code.

This program will never make it into the community repository because of the destructiveness this program can cause.

Personally I don't want it in the community repository, if yaourt had been in community repos. when I started using arch I would have never learned a thing about the pkgbuild, AUR, ABS system and arch in general.

remember arch is supposed to be a 'simple', 'elegant', and 'fast' distro. Adding tools like yaourt just makes it more bulky like any other distro, which is not the design goal of arch.

Now stop complaining and just be happy yaourt was coded for your pleasure in the first place.

+1 on all points (yeah, I'm being lazy here ).

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