(05-12-2018, 12:08 AM)Dworin Wrote: Regarding your idea, how would you imagine the makepkg equivalent to check for {,build} dependencies?

It could try to detect current package manager and check dependencies.

(05-12-2018, 12:08 AM)Dworin Wrote: how to tell the package manager that you're installing files without knowing which package manager is used?

Check the ways package managers know if a package is installed and modify it.

I really don't know if the solutions provided are the ideal, or if a cross-distro AUR equivalent is not possible, but i got excited when i came up with it. How can we make it work in all distros? Is it even possible?