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What package manager do you use for arch based distros? (lemmy.ml)

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So I recently installed Cachyos and I am now met with this problem.

There are kind of 2 main contenders here and I'm split between them. What do you use?

There is pacman + aur and then there is flatpak. Pacman has deep system integration and is much more lightweight but it has deep system integration and requires sudo to install. flatpak has sandboxing and easy permission management but it's bloated and possibly less performant?

Of course if the package isn't available on flathub then I will have to use the aur but when both are available it's hard to decide.

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[–] Maiq@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

For me it's convenience, i try to not have a bunch of aur packages. Some big packages can take a good while to compile.

Chaotic is also trying to combat threats by reviewing packages from maintainers that are not in their trust database. While not absolutely perfect at least they are trying to do something.

The aur is a use at your own rick batch of packages. Last year there were some malicious packages running wild. AUR expects the user to do their own due diligence and do you really have time to read every bit of code you are about to install for every update in all the possible languages they could be written in? This is why I try to limit my dependence on the aur if possible chaotic or otherwise.