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Re:Running an independent Arch Linux rebuilder by banachtarski on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:24PM (#22939988)
proprietary drivers from nvidia are provided by the Arch mainline (core) though?
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Re:Running an independent Arch Linux rebuilder by serf on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:26PM (#22940000)
right you are, i've been on beta for years and had forgotten.

point still stands, aur does distribute executables once in awhile.

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Re:Running an independent Arch Linux rebuilder by pritambaral on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:49AM (#22944200)
> aur does distribute executables once in awhile.

The AUR doesn't distribute those executables; it distributes the instructions for the user (or some software working on behalf of the user) to go fetch the executables themselves. This is an important distinction, because the official Arch repositories _do_ distribute executables, directly to the user.

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