Well, may I ask a question in this context? Many Arch opponents say we have a very limited number of binary packages and a lot of it in unsuported. I'm looking at my desktop box and really can't deny it. I have a lot of software from AUR. Why this happens? Very limited resources, few TU's, strict official repos policy or what? Sorry for offtopic, maybe I need to post this on forums?
in some recent updates of some packages you see more and more deb's or rpms or whatever being extracted and repacked for arch
is there some aur guideline about this, i really don't like this development because why not take advantage of our bleeding edge gcc power
if the source is there, why not build from it?
in cases like opera it is understandable because it is not open source, but in some other cases like kalsamix i find it very disturbing
maybe some other comments about this ?
I agree. Everything should be built from source where possible.
Allan