On 21/07/15 17:56, Martti Kühne wrote:
Other than that, you seem to believe there are many inofficial repositories, when in fact, there's mostly one. And that is the AUR, which is taylored to be serving pacman's -U functionality specifically. That in turn has nothing to do with pacman otherwise. You can build a fully functional and complete system using *official* sources and officially *inofficial* ones (the AUR), so I'm not sure why pacman should serve inoffical repositories with a tool, thereby wrongly making them appear official. Such an impression will be held by the average user of such a tool (as regularly happens on Ubuntu), making this a definite -1 from my side.
Well... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories There seems to be more than one (and the AUR is not a repository at all...). And the Arch official/unofficial distinction does not come into this - pacman development decisions are made for the benefit of pacman, not Arch (although these do generally align). Allan