[pacman-dev] RFC: 'repo-add' command for repository discovery

[Martti Kühne]

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.

cheers!
mar77i