What would be the technical limitation of Manjaro hosting a copy of the AUR which Manjaro users use? It would simply sync the PKGBUILDs at the same time Manjaro syncs with the Arch repos (so would go through the Unstable → Testing → Stable process)
Doesn’t mean official support for the AUR, but that way Manjaro is not spending Arch resources.
Here’s why it’s not the same. When searching the AUR website, the user wants something from AUR. Users searching pamac might want something in the regular repos, but their queries are still sent to aur.archlinux.org.
If this is an infrastructure issue why doesn’t the Manjaro team make a fund and ask for donations from its users to help support the development & expansion of the AUR? This problem will only continue to grow, sooner or later they’ll get sick of us leeching off their good graces and boot us all together, might be a good idea for us to at least pitch in.
You wouldn’t need to look through the entire AUR, just look and see which PKGBuilds have changed since the last sync, the AUR provides the ability to do this
Would it not spend less resources on their end for you to do one sync rather than every Manjaro user querying the AUR everytime they want to install/update/search something?
I have Pamac configured to check for updates weekly, including the AUR. I don’t think one check every 7 days is going to contribute to the problem of overloading the AUR. At least I hope not.
Auto-searching should be disabled completely I suppose. It is one of the most annoying features of Pamac. Or make a switch button similar to Octopi’s one.
Does the command /usr/bin/checkupdates check the AUR too? And if so, how can I prevent it from checking it, just like I would do pamac checkupdates --no-aur?
Is the pamac checkupdates --quiet equivalent to /usr/bin/checkupdates?
I see. I just did a pamac search --files -q /usr/bin/checkupdates and it revealed it is owned by pacman. I thought this was a Manjaro specific script. In this case, i don’t need to worry, because my auto update for Qtile uses /usr/bin/checkupdates and therefore does not check AUR.
AGAIN the user ??
Pamac is a efault, installed even on every minimal iso. So please manjaro, don’t blame the users, instead provide deault tools that do not break other sites !
Damned, I beginn to run hot. What a shame.