My 2 cents would be to continue using npm, though allot of the python library's have been included into the main repo / AUR
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:56 PM, 4javier <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm the maintainer of "brackets" package on AUR. It's a code editor written > in javascript upon NodeJS library. Nodejs package from community repo ships > "npm", a command-line tool to manage nodejs packages. To satisfy nodejs > dependency for my package, should I use npm inside build() function in my > PKGBUILD (solution that I prefer and now I'm using), or should I create an > AUR tarball for every dpendency, and add all those ones inside depends() > array? > > I want to point out that this is the list of *build *dependencies for > brackets > > > "grunt": "0.4.1", > "jasmine-node": "1.11.0", > "grunt-jasmine-node": "0.1.0", > "grunt-cli": "0.1.9", > "phantomjs": "1.9.0-1", > "grunt-lib-phantomjs": "0.3.0", > "grunt-contrib-jshint": "0.6.0", > "grunt-contrib-watch": "0.4.3", > "grunt-contrib-jasmine": "0.4.2", > "grunt-template-jasmine-requirejs": "0.1.0", > "grunt-contrib-cssmin": "0.6.0", > "grunt-contrib-clean": "0.4.1", > "grunt-contrib-copy": "0.4.1", > "grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "0.1.3", > "grunt-contrib-less": "0.8.2", > "grunt-contrib-requirejs": "0.4.1", > "grunt-contrib-uglify": "0.2.0", > "grunt-contrib-concat": "0.3.0", > "grunt-targethtml": "0.2.6", > "grunt-usemin": "0.1.11", > "load-grunt-tasks": "0.2.0", > "q": "0.9.2", > "jshint": "2.1.4", > "xmldoc": "^0.1.2" > > > You could imagine how frustrating would be for me to maintain all this AUR > tarball, and for an user to keep them updated without using an AUR helper > (that I don't like). >
