The AUR does not provide source code hosting, on the grounds that other
places like Github, Gitlab, git.sr.ht, amd so on are doing it better.
Moreover, source code hosting is a resource burden on the provider,
which in our case we do not have either a business or community
rationale for accepting. (Again: we provide hosting for build recipes > because
build recipes are something specific to Arch).
Makes sense, and I would not have done it "my way" if it weren't for the
fact that my source code is a single Perl file with a mere 1400+ lines
of code.
Speaking of "borderline cases", such as mine:
One of the opt-depend packages my disklow is using, "msmtp-mta", is
containing a single symlink (/usr/bin/sendmail => msmtp). Perhaps, I
should have a look at its PKGBUILD (it's most likely simply calling "ln
-s" in its install() section).
More generally, why would you upload your project in a way that is
targeted exclusively for Arch users? What if users of a different distro
wanted to use your software?
Because I am going to provide the packages for them myself.
