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[-] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

They use their own repos, but they don't hold back the packages. The reason for having separate repos is recompiling packages for newer architectures. It gives a little performance boost for most of them. AUR works totally fine.

[-] kurcatovium@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

OK, thank you, this pretty much explains everything.

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