On 5/12/21 6:07 AM, fredbezies via aur-general wrote: > Hello. > > I saw that packages meant for Manjaro or another archlinux based > distro - not ArchLinux itself - were removed. > > Garuda Linux project - https://garudalinux.org/ - put on AUR at least > 7 packages for its distribution. > > See https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=garuda > > Are these PKGBUILDs allowed or not? > > Thanks for your answer.
It's not a problem, inherently, for other distros to put up packages in the AUR. Those packages just have to follow the same rules everyone follows. Simply put, the AUR is the *Arch* User Repository, not the Garuda User Repository or the Manjaro User Repository or the Arch-like-derivatives User Repository. As a rule of thumb, all uploaded packages must be capable of being built on at least one supported Arch Linux system, and do something useful when installed there. So: - architecture must either be "any", or include "x86_64" - - may additionally support other distros - cannot hardcode functionality such that it assumes some other distro is in use I have no idea which packages of Garuda did not get deleted, or which packages of Manjaro did. But examples of packages that are... non-problematic: - icon/desktop themes that contain Manjaro imagery problematic: - pacman-mirrors, a program that generates mirrors for the Manjaro package repositories, which Arch systems don't use - manjaro-system, a pacman hook that does Manjaro-specific workarounds for the Arch News - mhwd, a Manjaro program that I believe assumes you're using the Manjaro official kernel names... so if you tried to use it on Arch, it would fail. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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