[Dev] Server Concerns

[Florian Pelz]

On 11/15/2015 10:36 PM, Florian Pelz wrote:
> On 11/15/2015 09:25 PM, Jorge Araya Navarro wrote:
>> Do Arch Linux have the technology behind AUR available to download, install and modify? it would
>> help us a lot if we want to have a PUR.
> 
> Why make a new AUR? If a liberated package is not interesting to many
> people, why not put it on the Arch Linux AUR? Are the Arch Linux people
> against this? If it is interesting enough to support it but not
> important enough for libre then pcr seems like a good equivalent of
> community from a user perspective.
> 

Okay I see now:

https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/assist/2014-July/000265.html

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> If I understand it, [yaourt is] a package manager for AUR, which
> permits to install many free and non-free software.
> I guess it's not in parabola because it promotes the
> installation of non-free software.
>
> The way to get software that is in aur in parabola is to make
> parabola developers package it in pcr.
> That way the freedom of that package is checked.

That problem could be solved with an AUR blacklist, but I can talk much
as long as I don't have the time to work on it myself.