On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:59 AM, David Phillips <dbphillip...@gmail.com> wrote: >>So assumed there would be a helper that provides the kind of search you > need, you won't use it, as a matter of principle and because there are > freakish discussions about helpers? > > If (more or less) all it did was search the AUR, then I would look at > using it. But the regex thing is such a trivial thing to implement on > the AUR search.
Have you send a patch yet? Maybe regex search is too much for the server to handle, maybe its too expensive to enable it.