On Thu, 2026-08-06 at 07:29 +0000, doublemiu wrote: > Hello. I just would like to ask about chances of migrating most > popular or maintened by developers packages to community repository? > Idea we still have to upgrade such packages like zen browser, heroic > games launcher and many others from aur ...
To a large extent, this has already happened, and continues to happen. The remaining entries are simply not eligible for inclusion in the repoitories. Sorting by votes, the most popular packages are: * aur helpers (yay, octopi, paru), which are not allowed in the main repos, * software with licenses that prohibit Arch from redistributing the software directly (ttf-ms-fonts, android-sdk, virtualbox-ext- oracle), and * direct duplicates of software already in the repos (visual-studio- code-bin, google-chrome, tor-browser-bin) where the repository version has modifications to allow distribution or other workarounds. Sorting by popularity (which adds some recency bias and includes a bunch of recently-dropped packages people probably have installed by accident) doesn't change that story much, though it adds some game launchers with unclear licensing status. These either cannot or should not be added to the repositories. Bert.
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