[artix-general] aurutils artix friendly?

[cromer at artixlinux.org]

Artix does not officially support the AUR. And technically neither do the devs at arch linux. AUR stands for Arch User Repository. An emphasis on the word "user", it is maintained by users of arch, not devs/packagers of arch. Arch devs have stated that they I hate AUR helpers, and most of is artix devs feel the same. Most AUR packages should work with artix without issue, but that doesn't mean we support it.

If there is an AUR helper that does work with artix 100%, no idea.

⁣Chris Cromer
Artix Linux Developer

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On Nov 1, 2020, 9:09 PM, at 9:09 PM, Javier via artix-general <artix-general at artixlinux.org> wrote:
>Hi !
>
>I've been using for quite a while aurutils as my AUR helper, and I
>really like the way it handles things, with a local repo to track and
>manage AUR packages locally installed.
>
>I've never used the chroot option...  But now I was exploring it, and
>it's hard coded to use devtools from arch.  I'm wondering if there's a
>similar aur helper based on aurutils, or with similar philosophy bur
>for artix, which would use artools instead...  A fork tracking the
>original aurutils sounds like a workaround, but keeping track of
>something else means being behind most of the time...
>
>aurutils still works well if chroot is not used.  Though by looking and
>how some functionality is pretty dependent on arch (in the case of
>chroot, there's even a dependency on systemd spawn containers), it
>makes me think there might be more functionality non artix friendly... 
>Is there anything similar, artix friendly?
>
>Thanks !
>
>-- 
>Javier
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