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Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?

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Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?

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Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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What makes you think there aren’t equivalents out there?

Gentoo’s Guru repository, for one, and any of the multitude of ebuild repositories available through the eselect repository command.

The AUR is not particularly special.
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    And the AUR is not as extensive as the Nix Store.

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