On 4/23/26 10:55 PM, Jakub Klinkovský wrote:
How do you select which AUR helpers archinstall allows to install? The wiki
has an extensive page which is moderated to limit self-promotion and avoid
bad/unmaintained software:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers
We would honor that list, and select a few (to begin with at least)
based on their overall popularity (github stars, maintenance pace etc).
I don't think that implementing this feature with a short allowlist will
avoid similar feature requests - people will just request to add helper X
instead of adding support for AUR helpers in general.
That is something the project itself would be okay with I think, at
least from my standpoint. But we'd have to start somewhere, preferably
small, to see how adoption behaves. As adding more supported features in
`archinstall` adds workload, it makes sense for us to start with a few.
And hopefully gain more contributors willing to help adding the rest.
(this is how it started and worked out with desktop profiles).
Would now be a good time to allow AUR helpers to be installed via
`archinstall`? Not AUR packages, but helpers.
Yet implementing the feature basically adds the ability to install an
arbitrary package from AUR...
Correct, `archinstall` can drop users to a chroot at the end of an
installation which would allow the user to make decisions with the help
of an AUR helper. But we won't be packaging AUR or dealing with
conflicting packages etc in `archinstall`, but it would give the user
more freedom of choice.
I appreciate the questions! Thanks for takin the time!
//Torxed
