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pbrisbin / aurget

A simple pacman-like interface to the AUR
GNU General Public License v2.0
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PKGEXT=.tar #33

Closed olebowle closed 9 years ago

olebowle commented 9 years ago

Hi,

could you please add an option to aurget to disable compressing packages prior to installing them? When installing large binary packages like dropbox, most of the time is spent compressing the package, which will be deleted after installing in most cases anyway. Basically one needs set the variable PKGEXT=.tar prior to invoking makepkg. Pacman is happy with installing uncompressed packages. I kind of hacked makepkg_options for my needs, but I guess are cleaner approach would be nicer.

$ grep makepkg_options .config/aurgetrc
makepkg_options='PKGEXT=.tar --syncdeps'

Cheers, olebowle

pbrisbin commented 9 years ago

To keep things simple, aurget does not implement anything that can already be done by modifying the behavior of makepkg directly. In this case, you can disable compression easily by editing makepkg.conf or exporting this variable in your shell rc.