On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
Every binary repo is called something in square brackets like [core], [extra], [community] etc., which are activated or deactivated in /etc/pacman.conf, but there is no repo [unsupported]. And at least I haven't found any reference on the AUR homepage to the term [unsupported]. From the user's point of view there is only AUR.
So I guess at least for new users it should be made clear somewhere in the wiki and/or on the AUR homepage that AUR and [unsupported] are the same. Or the term [unsupported] or at least the square brackets around unsupported should be dropped completely.
In my understanding, the AUR is the software [1] itself (which, iirc, isn't used by Arch only, but by a few other distributions as well) and [unsupported] is the term used for the collection of source packages that can be found on Arch's official AUR setup [2]. I agree that having this in square brackets might be a bit confusing tho... [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/