Why no other distro has something like the AUR?
Why no other distro has something like the AUR?
Evan Gray
Other urls found in this thread:
brew.sh
github.com
twitter.com
Nathaniel Russell
All linux distros are fucking dogshit, just use windows xp or 7 and get a life.
There's more to life than ricing your loonix desktop to get internet points in linux desktop threads.
Isaiah Sullivan
Because no one other than dumb Arch users needs to download user scripts to do ./configure, make, make install.
Cooper Thompson
But they don't integrate with your package manager and get quite messy if you don't keep an eye on them.
Juan Kelly
Because aur poses an inherent security risk and most distros are backed by a corporation (red hat, Novell, canonical) who don't want to be held responsible if something goes wrong.
Thomas Ward
this.
on Fedora/CentOS, you can use copr, which is basically a public service where you upload your source+spec and it builds RPMs for you. software is good? ask to become a package maintainer and get it included in official repo. can't bother? well then leave it in copr in direct users there.
Benjamin Johnson
Someone's salty
Hudson Cooper
PPA. But is a shit like AUR.
Nolan Green
Dont take the bait, faggot. Leave winfags crying alone.
Ryder Rogers
ppa, copr, obs
several similar systems out there OP
Julian Martin
Mac has homebrew.
It's even better than AUR and not as retarded when it comes to git-based repos.
AUR managers can't even host local caches of git repos so they download hundreds of megs of data every time you update some app from git... which is beyond retarded.
Jacob Hernandez
PPAs aren't centralized as the AUR, plus they are Ubuntu-only, so if you use Debian, you are fucked.
Never heard about COPR or OBS so I can't say anything about them.
>tfw you only use Arch because of the AUR
>its implementation is retarded.
Jackson Fisher
Ubuntu - personal package archives (PPAs)
SuSE - Open Build Service
Gentoo - overlays
Crux - ports
...I could keep going, but the point stands: AUR is nothing unique at all.
Jordan Johnson
because when you have apt-get instead of pacman, you don't need anything else
Isaiah Green
Noah Morales
ports systems compare closer to ABS than AUR, though your main point remains valid. Just an autist sharing my thoughts here
Justin Edwards
>PPAs aren't centralized as the AUR,
This is a positive point.
Asher Watson
Not it's not, the more ppa's you add, he more likely you're going to get package conflicts, and package conflicts are much worse in Debian based systems than arch.
Christopher Bennett
Because it's a poor implementation of an even worse idea.
Aaron Sanchez
/thread
Jeremiah Roberts
He's not saying ports systems in general. CRUX does things differently and there's a specific meaning here.
Jeremiah Clark
>5 rupees have been deposited to your account
Brody Long
everyone else wants something that actually works
>Oh but it works if you spend weeks setting it up and reading mailing lists because my time is worthless so yours is too!
Landon Bailey
5? Only 5???
Super Shills, Inc. right down the street will pay you 8 per post.
Noah Kelly
Homebrew is a glorified ruby script. How does it feel to worship something anyone who has an actual computer could write in a hour?
Easton Watson
You're retarded if you believe that. Every distro has something like the AUR.
Adam Moore
weak troll
Caleb Hill
>You're retarded if you believe that every distro has something like the AUR.
Fixed your silly typo
Nathaniel Williams
More to life huh? Like what?
Logan Green
there's slackbuilds
Connor Thomas
I can always just download some sketchy ebuilds from an unknown website
Luis Richardson
As an Archer myself, I must admit Debian does. Quoting from the Arch Wiki
> Debian is the largest upstream Linux distribution with a bigger community and features stable, testing, and unstable branches, offering over 43,000 packages. The available number of Arch binary packages is more modest. However, when including the AUR, the quantities are comparable.
So yeah, the AUR is simply a way to allow Arch to have as many packages as many of the other distros. deal with it.
James Young
Even so, Debian can't cope well with niche packages or non-standard variants, AFAIK you can't get linux-ck on Debian repos for example.
Jacob Moore
>AUR managers can't even host local caches of git repos
pacaur does
Oliver Adams
>b-but debian has more packages!
meaningless to me if they aren't the packages i want
in my own personal experience, arch with the aur has covered much more of what i want to install than debian did