On Fri, 2026-04-24 at 12:23 +0200, Linus Probert wrote: > For experienced users, downloading a snapshot and running `makepkg` is > not particularly cumbersome.
There are situations where you either need to know how something works or you need to learn it. If you need help with this, you can find it in the Arch Linux forums, for example. Building in a clean chroot or the question of whether or not you can build in tmpfs are the first things that come to my mind in this context. I don’t believe that users should be denied packages as a teaching tool, but they should understand that it’s not a problem if an AUR helper isn’t provided by the official repositories. Personally, I think that pacman-static, even though I’ve never needed it myself, fits better in official repositories than an AUR helper. Unless I need to compile something in a clean chroot environment, I stick with yaourt. Just because yaourt is blind in one eye and missing a paw doesn’t mean you should put it down. Instead, you stick a repair patch here and there on a gaping wound. If yaourt were a cat, you wouldn't just throw it away and buy a new one. -- What have you done to the cat? It looks half-dead. - Schrödingers's wife
