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Quite true, I know how they're generated. More like, I wish you could include something like an optional README file or something. Particularly for packages tha

by gh02t 11y ago

Quite true, I know how they're generated. More like, I wish you could include something like an optional README file or something. Particularly for packages that require further setup. I know people often use the `install` function to do it, but it seems like I often run into packages that leave me wondering either what they do or what else I have to do to make them work. This of course isn't necessarily a flaw in the AUR and is really more of an issue with the packagers doing a bad job.

zanny 11y ago
You could add a README as an external source if one is not included with the binary package or source repo itself. And yeah I know that isn't basically a longform description field on the AUR page, but comments can do that job too. I don't see it as some crippling issue, and honestly I would probably not even change it - the way the AUR is laid out now makes it easy to pull down pkgbuilds and display package information agnostic to the environment easily. Adding paragraphs of detail into the pkgbuild or on the website limits that.