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humm.. ok, and for example when you have the binaries of a file you have to compile it a last time, no? That's my experience with aur, when you get the bin, you have to makepkg a other time
The Arch Linux makepkg is a bash script with description
make packages compatible for use with pacmanSome packages of AUR are not about compiling but fetching the binary (sometimes converting it from deb) and then prepare it for you so you can install it. So when you use AUR to install a binary package instead of compiling there is really no compiling involved afair.
ohhh okay, thank you for your explanation!
In that case makepkg isn't compiling anything, it's just packaging the existing binaries so that they can be more easily installed and recognized by your package manager.
like linking all the files and make a clean package? So makepkg does everything from the start to end of the compiling process
Yeah, basically. makepkg automates the process of creating an Arch package, and while usually that involves compiling source code, sometimes it just means converting proprietary software that has already been compiled into a different format.
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