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The DUR is coming

Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 8:24 pm
by ivanovnegro
https://dur.hunterwittenborn.com/

The link says it all. Maybe in the future we will see an AUR like thing for Debian. It is of course called DUR, the Debian User Repository.
I am not sure about this but I do not think it is a bad idea per se. Though I would rather see more packages going into main instead to a third party, at least when the program is open source.

Re: The DUR is coming

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 6:49 pm
by gutterslob
Yeah, not a bad idea, but not sure I'd use it over simply building from source. The AUR has always been a double-edge sword. An absolute haven for new/useful/obscure software, but at the same time an utter cesspool of broken/unmaintained/undocumented crapware.

Besides, can't the OBS work on Debian? Personally never tried it. There are also others, like Pacstall, though I can't remember if that's for Debian or Ubuntu.

Meh, more choice is good. So,... yay?

Re: The DUR is coming

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 7:31 am
by vic
Okay, yeah, why not?! If I will use it? Meh, depends of how desperate I would be?