Pacstall brings the freedom of the AUR to Ubuntu
Conclusion
There is a reason why official repositories like the Ubuntu repositories take longer to approve and publish new packages. Community-driven projects like Pacstall and the AUR do not offer the kind of systematic testing and checking provided by the distro-branded equivalents. This gives a community repository the freedom to grow and flourish to reflect the needs of the whole user base. However, it does put more responsibility on you the user to know what you are downloading. Many users are willing to take this trade-off to gain the flexibility and convenience of a community repository. The good news is the scripts are typically quite simple, and it is easy to see what they are doing by inspection.
The Pacstall repository currently lists around 209 packages, and the number continues to grow. It will be some time before Pacstall catches up with the sprawling size of the AUR, but the developers hope that Pacstall continues to grow and becomes more useful for the Ubuntu/Debian community.
Infos
- Pacstall website: https://pacstall.dev
- Pacstall user repo: https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall-programs
- st: https://st.suckless.org
- Create a pacscript: https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall-programs/blob/master/make-a-pacscript.md
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