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

[Allan McRae]

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