I love flatpak but if you aren't using the AUR on arch what's the point?!
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Wait people donβt just install arch to say that they use it ?
I love Arch but I hate installing and configuring it.
I might have something shocking to tell you. There are distros with good defaults!
Can you recommend a rolling release distro that has good defaults for hyprland or sway?
I can recommend a semi-rolling distro ;D wayblue has some defaults, but I have not tried it. There also is a hardened version of it under the secureblue images. Although I think the maintainer has horrible control issues, I cant deny that the product is near perfect (apart from opinionated Chromium enforcements and some hacky parts like LD_PRELOADing a different allocator) and use the kinoite variant daily.
I cannot.
Endeavour OS is great but itβs just arch.
Gentoo with oddlama/gentoo-install is nice too.
Personally I've been enjoying Garuda with sway.
But that's okay as it's rolling release and unlike other distros you only need to do it exactly once...
The Arch repos, being quick, rolling, not restricted legally or being upstream of some corpo distro like Fedora or OpenSUSE etc
Idk ask Steam?
There are people that choose flatpak for some apps and the AUR for other apps I heard from a friend π
Meanwhile flatpack: (unverified)
They specifically only added the repo with verified apps
flatpak remote-add flathub-verified --subset=verified https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
If an AUR package wants to install 137 python dependencies, I usually search for a flatpak instead.
Why is this the case? Have I been installing stuff wrong my entire life?
Beside what @fatihozs@mastodon.social wrote:
- If the package wants to install an awful amount of dependencies it means those dependencies are only used by that package on my system. Flatpaks contains all dependencies, so the required disk space would be similar to the flatpak.
- My feeling is flatpak install time is quicker in this case, to install 1 flatpak vs 138 AUR packages. I never measured it though.
- I only do this if an insane amount of dependencies needed. Some dependencies are normal, if more than 50 than I think AUR is not an ideal way to distribute a software, or also include a
-bin
package. - If no flatpak available I still install the 137 dependencies, so nothing wrong with that, it's simply the way I like to manage my system.
@pineapplelover @infeeeee No, some people just don't want to install tons of packages just for an application they want to use to. The more package means the higher chance for system breakage. It's better checking dependencies and pkgbuild before install
Yeah but I thought if I installed it through AUR natively then it would be better since if other programs need those same dependencies, I wouldn't have to install them again.
Personally i like chaotic-aur because it's already pre compiled
The only aur packages on my is system is stacer-bin (the only cleaner i trust other than bleachbit)
Stacer for the win!
You can remove dependencies after install, at least in yay, I never do tho.
That's install dependencies (in PKGBUILD they are called makedepends
), python programs usually need them for runtime (depends
in PKGBUILD). On the main page of a package they are listed together, but on the PKGBUILD they are separate
π I know (well that about two types of dependencies)
That python dependency seem more a upstream issue, not a AUR issue, isnβt it? I mean, if I install the same app from another source, it still needs those dependencies, isnβt it?
I just hate snaps lol
I have just had bad experiences with flatpack so I don't want to use it and the aur has the stuff I need and flatpack dose not