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Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The AUR is basically just a script that describes best case scenario for building something under Arch. They don't have any specific quality rules they have to meet.

It's super easy to make and publish an AUR script compared to a regular distro package (including Arch packages).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Usually they work well enough, especially things that just involve repacking binaries (e.g. printer drivers)