Chaotic repository

[dalto]

@croweland

Good morning, I would like to ask if is safe to add this repository or it’s better avoid.

It is up to you if you think it is safe or not. Here are my thoughts on 3rd party repos in general:

[FAQ] The dangers of using 3rd party repos

This is something I wrote last year and posted somewhere else. I thought it was worth sharing here as I see a lot of people using 3rd party repos. There are often discussions about the dangers of using AUR but it seems like there a lot less focus is on the dangers of using 3rd party repos. In general, using a 3rd party repo is much more dangerous than using AUR. With an AUR package, everything is fully transparent and the package is built on your machines. A quick look at the PKGBUILD file wi…

@croweland

I would like to add this repo, for snapper-tools only, because I’ve problem installing it with aur

I will take a look at it and see if I can see why it is failing to build.

That being said, why do you want to use snapper-tools? Isn’t it built specifically for Garuda? I looked it in the past and seem to remember it being expecting certain things to be setup as they are on Garuda.

@croweland

With this repository may I have problem during upgrade system?

It depends what packages you install from it. You can definitely create conflicts with certain packages because they will end up having hard dependencies since they will be built against specific deps.