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jolmg 32 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption

They do. There's a list of them on the Arch Wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositorie...

The problem with user repos vs the AUR is that you're trusting the maintainer behind them instead of inspecting the PKGBUILD and fetched sources yourself.

Pay08 32 days ago [–]

And they're incredibly unpopular.

The entire problem is that people weren't inspecting PKGBUILDs. At least with user repositories, you have someone who can build a reputation for trustworthy packages. There's a reason why every other distro does user repos.

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