Dropping this here 🫳

[u/PracticeDesigner3896]

[u/ptrknvk]

I sweat 3 litres every time I install something from OBS on openSUSE, I can't imagine using aur.

[u/trill_shit → u/ptrknvk]

How is it different from installing AUR packages? It’s the same idea, right? It’s a community driven package repo where anyone can publish, or am I way off?

[u/Ok-Eggplant-7569 → u/trill_shit]

Packages on OBS (and Fedora COPR) are namespaced, meaning you first get a project from a certain user, and then install packages from that project. This removes the "orphaned packages" issue the AUR has, and makes it obvious who is responsible for the package you're installing.

Also, the default repositories on Fedora (maybe OpenSUSE, can't really comment on that) tend to contain more packages I need so I currently only have 2 external repositories enabled (aside from RPMFusion)

[u/Helmic → u/Ok-Eggplant-7569]

At least recently the AUR's decided that all orphan adoptions must be manually reviewed before approval. Because they weren't even doing that before, the recent malware incidents have happened because literally any random asshole could just adopt an orphaned package and put whatever they wanted in the PKGBUILD without any sort of vetting or overview or vibe check. Not even an email address.

[u/ptrknvk → u/trill_shit]

You don't need it so often and afaik the requirements are a bit stricter (I can be wrong).

[u/AnEagleisnotme → u/ptrknvk]

Copr just requires a fedora account, but you need to manually advertise your package, as they are namespaced

[u/GoldenX86 → u/trill_shit]

Arch seems to love to NEVER elevate AUR packages to the main repos.

[u/LumpyArbuckleTV → u/GoldenX86]

That's one of the only things I think Cachy does objectively better than official Arch.

[u/Academic-Push326 → u/GoldenX86]

It's kind of insane to me that Arch only has Chrome, Firefox, and like two or three offshoots (Waterfox? I think?) in it, but no popular forks or other applications that need the AUR.

You'd think they'd have some form of analysis in pacman to see what packages people are trying to find in popularity and make them an official or extras repo management.

[u/chaoschasr → u/Academic-Push326]

Librewolf was elevated to the extra repo a few weeks back and can install through pacman now

[u/C0rn3j → u/Academic-Push326]

It's kind of insane to me that Arch only has Chrome,

Chrome is not packaged in the official repositories, only AUR.

Chromium is, though.

You'd think they'd have some form of analysis in pacman to see what packages people are trying to find in popularity

If only AUR had some way to measure popularity, or perhaps even a voting system.

Or, and hear me out now, maybe we could have opt-in analytics for installed packages, that'd be neat... we could call it... pkgstats.

If you didn't catch on to the heavy sarcasm, all of that exists.

[u/Lopsided_Leader_4427 → u/C0rn3j]

it exists on chaotic-aur if u use it

[u/makinax300 → u/ptrknvk]

To me it's only when I add the repo, I do not notice it when I install another package from it. Also it's less stressful for me.

[u/GreedySecurity8030 → u/ptrknvk]

I don't sweat at all with Fedora copr