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Yes. In my experience, 95% of what I needed was in the official repos, and the rest in AUR. Objectively speaking, Arch has ~60K official packages, which is mor
by read_if_gay_ 6y ago
Yes. In my experience, 95% of what I needed was in the official repos, and the rest in AUR.
Objectively speaking, Arch has ~60K official packages, which is more than Debian and Ubuntu at ~50K each. I don't think many distros even have more packages than Arch. The official repos aren't tiny at all.
- saghm 6y agoAnd that's not even counting the fact that Debian/Ubuntu like to split the headers for libraries into separate packages from the libraries themselves! Arch doesn't tend to do that (other than the kernel headers)