Why isn't aurbuild in community?

Penguin wrote:http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=aurbuild
Time to put this in Community, Penguin. It's got the votes.

Well, back from my night class.  Probably good I stood up and walked away for a bit, gave me time to think. 
Dusty, thanks for the split.  You're my hero.
First, before I say anything else, I want to make it crystal clear that my opinions aren't based on a lack of trust, or some notion that aurbuild is an inherently 'unsafe' or 'bad' program - to the contrary, I use aurbuild frequently and find it a terribly useful application that's well designed from a user standpoint.
Having said that, Dusty, I think I know where you were coming from with your Skype argument, which I missed before - and here I was saying you missed my meaning!
But you're right, in my mind, the argument is based more on what aurbuild does than the fact that nobody wants to adopt it.  The more I think about it, I admit, the less I feel this is as clear-cut a case as I originally figured.
However, I see aurbuild as being fundamentally different from applications like skype or azureus in that it's designed to be an ArchLinux-specific tool, specifically created to pull unsupported packages and install them, and such a tool if brought into the official community repo could cause confusion in the distinction between community and unsupported - if community has an app that directly installs from unsupported, then what's the point of unsupported?  Additionally, I could see some newer users starting to file bugs for unsupported apps, simply because there was an 'official' route install them. Weaker-sounding arguments, I admit, and I do recognize the flaws them, but they are still along the same vein as before.
I still think unsupported is the right place for aurbuild to be.  However, I agree it is a wonderful app... maybe if I turn this around: I think I understand where you're coming from, but for the sake of clearing everything up maybe you could say why is it you are all so insistent it gets into community?  Simply so it can be managed through pacman, or is there a deeper reason?

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