You are better off just using the AUR version. It doesn’t take that long to build. Also remember you will also need to install cronie on EndeavourOS. Manjaro does a lot of modifications to AUR packages to get them to work with their OS.
Alright. I understand. But theoretically speaking, if it is about a package without modifications that can be run on “vanilla” Arch, would installing such a package be possible? In that case how could one resolve the key issue?
It is a relatively bad idea to install packages from the Manjaro repos on a non-Manjaro distribution.
You are essentially creating a partial update scenario. Manjaro’s packaging has an ever increasing amount of differences with other Arch-based distros. Perhaps even more importantly, Manjaro’s branches are deliberately delayed which means they will be out-of-sync with Arch.
If you must do it, it would be better to pull from unstable than stable. That being said, I wouldn’t do it.
Yes I thought about that and I checked the branches. They are all at the same version.
Alright, I understand. I just got the (bad) idea and wanted to try it anyway to see if it will work. It is not something I will be doing as a matter of course.
The endeavouros repo does not contain a lot of things, it’s mostly yay, some scripts and utils, and some basic theming. As far as I understand @Bryanpwo this is intentional to make repo maintenance always possible and ensure the longevity of EndeavourOS. A wise decision, in my opinion.
You can list all of the packages in endeavouros by running:
Well - depends on what package and where from, I think. For instance, I add the EOS repo to Arch - which gives me yay - and all the other EOS goodies. Only a workable idea with repos that are for ‘close’ Arch-based, though… For instance - Garuda might be worth raiding too?
Do you know what I need to add to pacman.conf for Garuda’s repo? I would be interested to have a look at their tools and test if they caould be run on EOS.
