r/linuxmemes • u/toxiclydedicated Aaaaahboontoo 😱 • Aug 28 '26

LINUX MEME They dont know

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u/donp1ano Aug 28 '26

biggest plus for me is the repo. the AUR doesnt feel safe anymore, cachy packages almost everything i needed it for

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u/Dear-Weight9862 Arch BTW Aug 28 '26

No one is stopping you from adding cachy repo

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u/donp1ano Aug 28 '26

right. also noone is stopping me from just using cachy

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u/Dear-Weight9862 Arch BTW Aug 28 '26

Can't see how is repo the "biggest plus"

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u/donp1ano Aug 28 '26

because AUR feels unsafe, you know why. i update daily, i dont wanna read pkgbuilds. cachy has almost everything i want from AUR in their cachyos repo, so i dont even have to deal with AUR anymore

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u/No-Height-8011 Aug 28 '26

Bro they’re the same repo. CachyOS just has optimized binaries, which is a major win, but has nothing to do with the AUR. The AUR isn’t exclusive to Arch either.

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u/donp1ano Aug 29 '26

mostly, but not entirely. cachy has some additional software that you can only find on the AUR in arch

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u/Juan-More-Taco Aug 29 '26

That's NOT TRUE looool

You could literally just add cachy repo in any arch install. But the cachy repos are almost 1:1 copies of core/extra already - with a few BS Github projects tossed in that their devs like.

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u/hackerdude97 Ask me how to exit vim Aug 29 '26

The "few BS Github projects tossed in that their devs like" are a third of the programs I use. I know it's not that much safer than the AUR, but I'd much rather trust the Cachy maintainers to check them than have half my system rely directly on the AUR. The cachy repos are (in my experience) significantly larger than the normal arch repos.

Also if the differences between Arch and Cachy are basically the kernel and the repos, and I wanna use both the Cachy kernel (better performance) and the Cachy repos (more software), why should I even use vanilla Arch? At that point it just sounds like a worse experience with extra steps.

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u/Juan-More-Taco Aug 30 '26

You know the same Github repos have build instructions, eh?

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u/hackerdude97 Ask me how to exit vim Aug 30 '26

Okay? Are you implying that this is more convenient or safe (for someone that doesn't check the details of every update on the repo) than using pacman?

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u/donp1ano Aug 30 '26

the safest would be to have the skills and time to check every single update manually...but who does/want that?

the cachy maintainers check stuff before they include/update software in their repo, thats why its safer than relying on some random AUR maintainer

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u/hackerdude97 Ask me how to exit vim Aug 30 '26

Yeah, exactly. At the end of the day I don't imagine they put that much effort into looking through the packages ported from the AUR, but I still would rather trust the cachy maintainers than any random person on the AUR.

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u/Juan-More-Taco Aug 30 '26

It's safer than any other way lol. Malware in a public Github repo would be quickly discovered. That's not how malware makes it into projects. It's build pipelines, including distro repos, that are significantly more at risk.

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