I don’t think this is anywhere claimed seriously. It’s a meme. 
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alway same pointless talk about gui pkg manager . if want just install ( junk ) 
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For distrowatch watchers or gui package manager lovers. The welcome app on eos points to the arch repo, which provides a gui to search packages 
https://archlinux.org/packages/
Then sudo pacman -S package-you-want
Edit: genuinely responding to criticism as it might be that noob eos users don’t know. Then of course, next step is to figure which command to search packages etc. Eos website has plenty of articles.
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I had seen Jonathon saying this few times, and also many had said this line, hence I thought this to write up.
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Yeah, we like to joke about it. It’s not an official position, though.
It’s true, however. 
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pamac is a pile of 
and I’m glad no one had the idea to make him a permanent fixture here.
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Oh, absolutely! Even back in the day when I was using Manjaro, I had removed Pamac from my system.
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AFAIK EOS has had no issues with the pamac folks. The lack of GUI package manager isn’t some excuse or bit of laziness. Its because EOS is one step from default Arch which isn’t designed to use a GUI package manager to begin with.
Each time I hear someone suggest “EOS should just make their own XYZ” I have to wonder how much people understand the kind of maintenance burden that brings. People have suggested custom EOS browser, package manager, etc. But apparently know nothing of its history and how the project that spawned EOS took on big maintenance burdens that ended up shooting it in the foot.
EOS doesn’t need those and having a GUI installer doesn’t make it not terminal centric. If you want to kill the project I’m sure there are better ways than suggesting unnecessary maintenance burdens.
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Not enough to not use it apparently. We’re busier than ever, and topping the charts at distro watch.
So. . . Not too much head scratching going on if you really want to go there.
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This is some real mental gymnastics
So if EOS devs don’t implode the project by doing what the people want they’re “Bad Guys just like GNOME devs”
(Who aren’t even “the bad guys” lol)
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From my experience, people who suggest that do not care about the costs, as long as they are not the ones paying it.
They also claim to speak in the name of “community.”
There isn’t a good proper GUI non-technical package manager for Arch Linux so one isn’t included. Simple!
They can ignore “the people”,
but not the :
How often do you read community contributions category?
Do you know a user called @moson ?
What is improper on pacseek ?
Its only problem is it would suite a terminal-centric environment too well, IMHO 
Non technical refers to GUI package managers like Pamac, Discover, GNOME Software but not Octopi, Synaptics etc.
And I admit I forgot the existence of pacseek
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Why then not use this bad word GUI?
From the start when pacseek was developed I thought it was a perfect package mgr for a terminal-based desktop. So I wondered why nobody in EOS was interested, since development was outsourced. Are there any serious bugs or not trustworthy enough for a reason?
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I agree and that’s why I use it from time to time.
Most of the time I just use yay’s default search feature to find and install/remove packages.
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