• Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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    1 year ago

    What’s so special about it? Isn’t it just a repository? Or am I missing something? If it’s just a repo, Ubuntu has PPAs and everyone and their mother is creating PPAs.

    • ItsPlasmaSir@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      PPAs and the AUR are very different. Where as PPAs contain prebuilt .deb packages, the AUR hosts PkgBuild scripts that typically pull from a git repo and compile a program for you.

      I understand the confusion though, because they accomplish the same goal of installing software that is not in the main repos, but in different ways.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a single, central, community space for build plans, which are extremely easy for anyone to create and submit.

      Edit: And easier to audit than prebuilt packages