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Ryan McGuire 7 years ago
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========
arch-ppa is a tool that easily creates and maintains your own Arch
package repositories. Kind of like the Personal Package Archives (PPA)
that Ubuntu has, but way easier.
The Arch User Repository (AUR) is convenient, has tons of software, is
generally awesome, but is inherently insecure. Anyone can upload
anything they want to the AUR. This is why I don't like to use AUR
helpers like `yaourt` or `pacaur`. Using the AUR with a helper
requires you to be diligent in reviewing the PKGBUILDs it downloads,
in order to make sure it doesn't include things like viruses or
trojans, or downloading from a weird URL.
Linux package repositories. Kind of like the Personal Package Archives
(PPA) that Ubuntu has, but way easier.
The [Arch User Repository](https://aur.archlinux.org/) (AUR) is
convenient, has tons of software, is generally awesome, but is
inherently insecure. Anyone can upload anything they want to the
AUR. This is why I don't like to use AUR helpers like `yaourt` or
`pacaur`. Using the AUR with a helper requires you to be diligent in
reviewing the PKGBUILDs it downloads, in order to make sure it doesn't
include things like viruses or trojans, or downloading from a weird
URL.
I wanted a way to maintain my own repository of PKGBUILDs, downloaded
from the AUR, that I have manually verified. Building and installing

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