Post #4289758

2026-07-31 20:15 UTC

They should find a better solution Who’s “they”? Because it’s not Arch. Arch doesn’t want to have anything to do with AUR, and neither does any of the Arch-derived distros. They’re all perfectly happy taking advantage of it, of course, but not the responsibility.

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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-07-31 20:35

Who’s “they”? Because it’s not Arch. Arch doesn’t want to have anything to do with AUR, and neither does any of the Arch-derived distros. They’re all perfectly happy taking advantage of it, of course, but not the responsibility. Where did you got this nonsense from? What do you mean “they are not Arch”? The AUR is managed and operated by the Archlinux team. As the packages are community-driven content, they cannot guarantee and give support, because it is not their package. But they are still managing and supporting the AUR itself. archlinux.org/…/active-aur-malicious-packages-inc… from 2026-06-12 is an official message on the main Archlinux website (there is no new post about the current situation). from archlinux.org/people/package-maintainers/ : Campbell Jones is an AUR Moderator from archlinux.org/people/support-staff/ : Andrea Denisse Gómez-Martínez is an AUR Packager, Robin Candau is an AUR Moderator Are what could I find quickly. The point is, the AUR is officially developer, maintained and supported by the Archlinux team. They refer to them. What they cannot do is, support community-driven packages. It’s like expecting from Microsoft to support every single repository on Github. That’s not how it works and what “support” of AUR means.

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