On Sat, 25 Apr 2026 at 08:17, Óscar García Amor <[email protected]> wrote:
> El sáb, 25-04-2026 a las 09:04 +0200, Ralf Mardorf escribió: > > Pip and Friends, as well as Flatpaks and Snaps, are a whole different > > story, if you start mixing that up with a distro’s native package > > management, you might as well just light a can of gasoline on fire. > > Pip, when run as root, can cause far more damage than simply installing > packages from the AUR. > > I'm not sure the danger and damage from one over the other can be quantified that way and it may distract from the actual issue which I understand to be distribution endorsement of AUR >From my point of view as a user, I was perfectly happy with the default installation documentation to get up and running with Arch. After I found my feet and wanted things not in the core/extra I looked and found AUR with all appropriate warnings and decided to go ahead with it, and in the process learn much more. Not saying that my experience should be the template, but there's undoubtedly a benefit in keeping AUR installation helpers seperate, and the benefits for including it seem very minor, just confort.
