wouldn’t it be a good idea to take AUR out of pamac, so AUR packages still it could be managed by
terminal AUR helpers.
manjaro is a great distro and provides plenty of software for
any thinkable general use case, be it through the own repo
or flatpak or even snap ( who ever might need that one ).
So the normal user hardly needs AUR, the power user does not need
pamac to manage AUR packages.
So this woul be the proposal, am I wrong with it ?
it makes sense to me, … but it is not my responsibility, and I also it is just a hint to a solution.
So I rest it just here, do not want to argue on it any further, just wanted to put it in here … an I did not ment take out of Manjaro, I just ment Pamac not Manjaro
Yea cause cause regardless of the screaming not to use it, even by staff and Devs here there is plenty in it that cannot be gotten any other way. I truly hate building packages, but if I want a particular program I may not have a choice.
Why in the world would any sane person take extra steps they don’t need to? I myself have AUR enabled, and the way Manjaro has it to not search the AUR unless you expressly click on it on the left side is great. I personally install Topgrade so EVERYTHING is updated in one go. I use Pamac to checkup dates when informed I have them, then I open Konsole and run Topgrade to do the update.
CLI pamac serves as our AUR helper (it’s not just a GUI). It’s part of our automation.
Pretty much a normal Linux user and required to use the AUR from day one. The user/community packages, no matter what distro, always have an element of uncertainty surrounding them, but used with discretion they can really be a positive in one’s Linux life and solve real problems efficiently. Aways read the PKGBUILD. Not everyone uses flatpaks or snap.
There’s just far too many packages for them all to be in the official repos so the aur is a really useful resource. Even official manjaro team members maintain several packages in the aur rather than in the official repos. That being said the aur should still be used responsibly
I am not a fan of the auto-completion in pamac-manager GUI . Typing in the search box is lacking the usual Xfce responsiveness so I would like an option to turn it off. But I only use pamac-manager occasionally to update repository packages so it is not a major issue
pamac in CLI did not have problems with AUR and has always worked well for me
the aur should still be used responsibly
And responsibility is accepted by pressing Y to build package
Manjaro maintains the pamac and pamac-manager portals to AUR
but once you step through the looking glass into wonderland…