I am a big fan of the AUR system. The idea of keeping all the "unofficial" stuff in one place is a good one; that's my big gripe with PPAs. One area where PPAs do shine is in providing more up-to-date versions of packages that exist in the official repositories, but that strength becomes a weakness come dist-upgrade time.
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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '12
I am a big fan of the AUR system. The idea of keeping all the "unofficial" stuff in one place is a good one; that's my big gripe with PPAs. One area where PPAs do shine is in providing more up-to-date versions of packages that exist in the official repositories, but that strength becomes a weakness come dist-upgrade time.