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· no guarantee that your own PKGBUILDs still build in two months. You WILL have to touch them again at some point. Quite tiring. Also, the rules for packaging always change and you get angry requests for your AUR packages. The AUR is quite a mess with regard to consistency and standards conformance.
· latent fear that an update breaks something
Sure, these points are very AUR-centric, but obviously #ArchLinux without the AUR isn't enough for real-world-desktop usage I would say.
Yann Büchau :nixos: /
npub1qa…09r9e
2024-05-23 14:48:50
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