Using the AUR is of course preferable, but in his defense, the AUR package has been flagged as out of date and has the wrong dependencies (as per the comments).
Of course, this can be fixed by editing the PKGBUILD with your favorite AUR helper. For instance, yaourt (the one I've used for a while now) prompts you to edit the PKGBUILD on every package you try to install... and it displays the most recent comments on that package, so I'd notice that nodejs was a requirement.
But if you're not comfortable with PKGBUILDs and the like, I can see trying some alternate route when you notice that the AUR is out of date.
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Meteor is already available on AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58394
Using the AUR is of course preferable, but in his defense, the AUR package has been flagged as out of date and has the wrong dependencies (as per the comments).
Of course, this can be fixed by editing the PKGBUILD with your favorite AUR helper. For instance, yaourt (the one I've used for a while now) prompts you to edit the PKGBUILD on every package you try to install... and it displays the most recent comments on that package, so I'd notice that nodejs was a requirement.
But if you're not comfortable with PKGBUILDs and the like, I can see trying some alternate route when you notice that the AUR is out of date.