I don’t think AUR is a feature, but more of a hazard indicator. If the distributor isn’t packaging so many important things that most users have to turn to external services regularly, they’re lying down on the job.
Well that would apply to any distro I’ve used… they’re all going to have things that aren’t in the main repos. It’s a feature for Arch in that on nearly every other distro it’s probably going to be more of a pain to install them.
For my use cases I’ve had better luck finding the packages I need in the arch repos, than e.g. ubuntu or fedora repos. IMO arch is not worse than the ubuntus and fedoras for package availability in the main repos.
Though for me AUR is not the reason I use arch (I use it for rolling release, and up to date packages), I think AUR is better than e.g. PPAs on ubuntu. I think it’s a better experience installing e.g. visual studio code with an AUR helper, than to copy some random command off a website to set up the PPA and install it.
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I don’t think AUR is a feature, but more of a hazard indicator. If the distributor isn’t packaging so many important things that most users have to turn to external services regularly, they’re lying down on the job.
Well that would apply to any distro I’ve used… they’re all going to have things that aren’t in the main repos. It’s a feature for Arch in that on nearly every other distro it’s probably going to be more of a pain to install them.
For my use cases I’ve had better luck finding the packages I need in the arch repos, than e.g. ubuntu or fedora repos. IMO arch is not worse than the ubuntus and fedoras for package availability in the main repos.
Though for me AUR is not the reason I use arch (I use it for rolling release, and up to date packages), I think AUR is better than e.g. PPAs on ubuntu. I think it’s a better experience installing e.g. visual studio code with an AUR helper, than to copy some random command off a website to set up the PPA and install it.