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I'll take AUR over random blog articles telling me to add some obscure deb repository to my Debian/Ubuntu sources. At least AUR gives an accepted process to sub

by Sakos 2y ago

I'll take AUR over random blog articles telling me to add some obscure deb repository to my Debian/Ubuntu sources. At least AUR gives an accepted process to submitting and maintaining these third party packages. You can leave comments and read comments by others on a particular package. You can check the PKGBUILD which exists for every package and can be accessed in the same way for every package. And I do check every single PKGBUILD before installing some random package. AUR provides infrastructure and processes. It centralises the whole idea of "third party packages". Not having AUR just means everybody has their own repos for particular programs and no way for users to communicate in an easy and accessible way, which I think is pure insanity. Honestly, I think AUR is one of the best things to ever come out of Linux, because it's not just a repository.

Arnavion 2y ago
You act like the choice is either having a small official repo plus PPAs or a small official repo plus AUR, when the context of this thread is a comparison is with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed which has a large official repo (plus PPAs in the form of other OBS repositories if you really need them, but you almost certainly don't). A large amount of software that an Arch user has to use the AUR for is in the OpenSUSE oss repo that is supported officially and "tested" when snapshots are released (though the amount of testing varies with the software, of course).
- Sakos 2y ago
  Because it is. When using OpenSuse, I still had to go looking for packages that weren't in the official repos. > plus PPAs in the form of other OBS repositories if you really need them, but you almost certainly don't This is extremely presumptive and wrong. I find it very frustrating that any issues with these official repos is dismissed as "oh but you don't need extra PPAs ever". My guy, yes, I do. It happens way too often and it's very frustrating when it does, because the options for handling it in non-Arch based distros are completely insufficient and terrible. But then again, what do I expect. Any complaints about Linux are pretty much always dismissed out of hand. I actually prefer using Windows because Windows users generally aren't such arrogant pricks when there are issues.

by Sakos 2y ago

Arnavion 2y ago

You act like the choice is either having a small official repo plus PPAs or a small official repo plus AUR, when the context of this thread is a comparison is with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed which has a large official repo (plus PPAs in the form of other OBS repositories if you really need them, but you almost certainly don't). A large amount of software that an Arch user has to use the AUR for is in the OpenSUSE oss repo that is supported officially and "tested" when snapshots are released (though the amount of testing varies with the software, of course).

Sakos 2y ago
Because it is. When using OpenSuse, I still had to go looking for packages that weren't in the official repos. > plus PPAs in the form of other OBS repositories if you really need them, but you almost certainly don't This is extremely presumptive and wrong. I find it very frustrating that any issues with these official repos is dismissed as "oh but you don't need extra PPAs ever". My guy, yes, I do. It happens way too often and it's very frustrating when it does, because the options for handling it in non-Arch based distros are completely insufficient and terrible. But then again, what do I expect. Any complaints about Linux are pretty much always dismissed out of hand. I actually prefer using Windows because Windows users generally aren't such arrogant pricks when there are issues.