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Option to use Github AUR mirror

Open luiscastro193 opened this issue 4 months ago • 2 comments

I guess we all are aware of the unfortunate situation with the AUR repo. The official news recommends using the Github mirror as a workaround.

Could it be possible to add a configuration in order to use that? It's getting harder and harder to work with AUR repos otherwise.

luiscastro193 avatar Aug 26 '25 06:08 luiscastro193

many of the very important AUR features, such as dependency resolution, would be not available in such mode, basically you'll be able to run only -S (in case of no aur deps) and -G commands in such mode

actionless avatar Aug 27 '25 19:08 actionless

also lack of searchable package metadata could be solved by doing full repo clone of aur mirror locally - and next iterating branch by branch for building up a local aur database - but that's sounds both slow and quite a big effort to implement - so i'm not interested in that

actionless avatar Aug 27 '25 19:08 actionless