On 21/07/15 17:56, Martti Kühne wrote: > Other than that, you seem to believe there are many inofficial > repositories, when in fact, there's mostly one. And that is the AUR, > which is taylored to be serving pacman's -U functionality > specifically. That in turn has nothing to do with pacman otherwise. > You can build a fully functional and complete system using *official* > sources and officially *inofficial* ones (the AUR), so I'm not sure > why pacman should serve inoffical repositories with a tool, thereby > wrongly making them appear official. Such an impression will be held > by the average user of such a tool (as regularly happens on Ubuntu), > making this a definite -1 from my side.
Well... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories There seems to be more than one (and the AUR is not a repository at all...). And the Arch official/unofficial distinction does not come into this - pacman development decisions are made for the benefit of pacman, not Arch (although these do generally align). Allan
