Is there another distro that has an equivalent of the AUR with handling you think is preferable?

dizhn 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Opensuse OBS. Tiny bit better because the build environment doesn't allow a network and binaries are not allowed as far as I know. Fedora has a similar thing COPR. Both of these support building packages for other distros as well as appimage, flatpak etc.

With opensuse official packages also use the same infrastructure. It is actually quite fascinating and powerful.

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orbital-decay 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AUR is fast and loose and doesn't do much "handling" by design, so it's hard to find any equivalent repo. But there's always a tradeoff between fresh (nixpkgs unstable, might be the closest) and tested (Debian).

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akerl_ 10 hours ago | parent [-]

AUR isn't just the testing repo of Arch; it's explicitly just an open spot where anybody can put up "here's a PKGBUILD for folks". I don't see how it's like either the Nix or Debian examples.

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orbital-decay 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, Nix has NUR which is a direct equivalent but it's not nearly as broadly used and I assume "here's a PKGBUILD for folks" is already too permissive for you if you're asking.

There's no maintainer vetting process in nixpkgs as far as I know, anyone can own a bunch of packages. There are quality standards and it's not "here's a bunch of nix code for folks" but it's the next possible thing in the line after that.

	▲	isityettime 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The NUR was sort of convenient before flakes were a thing, but now that there's a really common convention for sharing Nix code few use it. I bet most people who came across Nix in the last 4 years have never even heard of it.
	▲	akerl_ 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It seems like you may have mistakenly inferred that I have issues with the AUR? I don't; I use Arch on 100% of my personal servers, have done so for something approaching 20 years, and don't see myself changing. But I treat the AUR for what it is: a place where anybody can say "here's a PKGBUILD for folks" and it's on me to evaluate it on its merits. I was legitimately asking the person upthread what other distro they felt had a better model for this kind of sharing, because they seemed to think this was a reason for Arch users to jump ship and I was curious what they thought would be the elements of a better system.

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guilhas 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Gentoo

But let's hope we get this solved, like peer review model, vouch, or something

It is very good to be able to find build/install files for everything

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akerl_ 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Gentoo's model appears to be basically the same? Like the AUR, anybody can submit basically anything they want. The requirements amount to containing valid packages, having a bugzilla account, and putting your package definitions in VCS somewhere.

	▲	butterknife 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In overlays that need to be explicitly enabled. Not as convenient as yay yolo. We can also add npm to package.mask.

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dokyun 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

SlackBuilds.org is pretty sensible.