On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:08 +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
My point in short: Arch is great as long most packages you need are binaries and only some are from source. If Arch requires you to build lots of packages from source it's the worst of both worlds.
Have you seen the list of software getting moved? I've only seen one person describe them collectively as 'many important' packages. Almost none of which I've heard of before, of course.... This thread started with the assertion that 'many important' packages are getting moved to the AUR. I believe this assertion to be false, as, obviously, do the devs. Historically from reading [arch-dev-public] the devs have been careful to continue maintaining packages none of them use if its seen as crucial to a large majority of users. None of the packages being moved fit these criteria. At all.