I was thinking about this project last night and was wondering what's keeping the individual components from being posted to Arch's
AUR?
There are packages for custom kernels and alternate MAME builds already in the AUR, and using something like 'yaourt' could make keeping current very easy for end users.
For example, I saw there was a SwitchRes update the other day, but I haven't got the foggiest idea how I could get it onto this system (I guess I'd need to manually compile it, potentially overwriting the existing version). It looks like a big rewrite that's more for testing than stable use, so it'd be nice to be able just install the 'switchres-wip' package, and fallback on the old 'switchres' package if I ran into big issues.
Thoughts?
(Sorry if I'm getting the details mixed up -- I'm not entirely sure if SwitchRes is compiled into MAME, or is an external utility.. from my perspective, it doesn't really matter. The question is "would someone be interested in putting GrooveArcade packages into the AUR?")