The Team Kodi PPA has long been a staple for Ubuntu (and similar) users wishing to use more recent, and less adulterated, versions of Kodi. It is with sadness that the team has come to a decision…
You mean… zero scrutiny? 🙂 The big advantage of AUR is that there’s only one of it but that’s about it.
The PPA model is fundamentally broken. As soon as you replace a core package from a PPA (which happens silently if it’s a dependency) you can kiss upgradeability goodbye. By the time the next Ubuntu release rolls out you’ll be in dependency hell and won’t be able to upgrade cleanly.
Basically Ubuntu’s version of the AUR.
Except they can be hosted by the person/company making the software. This always seemed more trustworthy than AUR to me.
Of course there are also community PPAs that would need the same scrutiny as AUR packages.
You mean… zero scrutiny? 🙂 The big advantage of AUR is that there’s only one of it but that’s about it.
The PPA model is fundamentally broken. As soon as you replace a core package from a PPA (which happens silently if it’s a dependency) you can kiss upgradeability goodbye. By the time the next Ubuntu release rolls out you’ll be in dependency hell and won’t be able to upgrade cleanly.
PPA:s are specifically hosted by Canonical, no? Otherwise it’s just a normal repo.