I know it's not safe, but it's doesn't stop me

corsicanguppy , 6 months ago

Reminder that compilation from source is absolutely futile to support because of the arbitrary nature of libs and deps on the machine at time of build and replication of the environment for repro. KThx

HouseWolf , 6 months ago

Honestly the AUR is the main thing stopping me from distro hopping...that and laziness

richardisaguy , 6 months ago

You can have AUR packages on other distros through ditrobox btw

rtxn , 6 months ago

Don't talk about chaos until you've used the AUR on Manjaro.

crony , 6 months ago

At some point my arch system was more than half aur git packages.

So I just nooved to gentoo now and wait 5 hours for qtwebengine to compile for qutebrowser.

Don't regret it.

cygnus , 6 months ago

Me when I have to compile something myself: :(

Me when I install something from the AUR: yay

Edit: I don't use Chaotic AUR though. I'm more lawful neutral.

SaltyIceteaMaker , 6 months ago

Me when I have to compile something myself: :(

Me when I install something from the AUR: pikaur

Hmm doesn't sound quite right in my case

ILikeBoobies , 6 months ago

I liked that

TootSweet , 6 months ago

Just always write your own PKGBUILDs and never use the ones from AUR.

In fact, just write your own PKGBUILDs rather than using the Arch repos.

Make Arch Gentoo Again.

LemmyHead , 6 months ago

I don't get all the noise around AUR being unsafe. Just verify the PKGBUILDS whenever you install or update something.

Chewy7324 , 6 months ago

Just verify

requires basic programming knowledge or at least some time to get familiar with PKGBUILDs, and then they have to take the time to read it.

Yes, I agree people should at least look up where it loads data from, but people are lazy.

LemmyHead , 6 months ago

I would argue that it's their own fault then. Laziness is not a valid excuse to put yourself so much at risk. If you start doing it consistently, it becomes a habit and won't take much effort. Of course, the familiarity with PKBUILD syntax has a learning curve

But a peer-reviewing system would be a better approach in AUR. Weird that it's not been implemented yet.