One of its biggest strengths is packing proprietary stuff that can’t be redistributed and using custom download clients.
You can share the PKGBUILD, but not the resulting package. Back in the early Humble Bundle days there were packages to install games from there with dependencies and everything; with a special downloader that could download the installers with a custom downloader and supplied credentials
There are plenty of packages that do this like game data packager. All then fixes i have heard to try to fix the aur is just reinventing main repo packaging again. I really do think what needs to be done is streamline packaging and becoming a maintainer. I say more apprenticeships to strengthen the maintainer pipeline.
One of its biggest strengths is packing proprietary stuff that can’t be redistributed and using custom download clients.
You can share the PKGBUILD, but not the resulting package. Back in the early Humble Bundle days there were packages to install games from there with dependencies and everything; with a special downloader that could download the installers with a custom downloader and supplied credentials
There are plenty of packages that do this like game data packager. All then fixes i have heard to try to fix the aur is just reinventing main repo packaging again. I really do think what needs to be done is streamline packaging and becoming a maintainer. I say more apprenticeships to strengthen the maintainer pipeline.