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it makes sense to me. remove as much friction from the publishing process as possible, so you get a huge amount of packages. this incident just shows they removed a little too much.
there are so many niche packages on the aur useful to so few people that nobody would go through the official process to properly package, test, and maintain them.
for example: vscodium is a fork of vscode, but microsoft disables the marketplace for it. the
vscodium-marketplacepackage from the aur adds it anyway. i don't think any regular repos have these kind of hacks and patches available.It just seems odd to me if there is no maintenance why not just build a package yourself from the devs provided source code? Maybe I'm just an old man but it seems without the on going maintenance it would be about the same as for example using buildpackage and apt-build on Debian but that is a local repo for just me. So if something goes wrong it only affects me not the whole internet.
Not to discredit your point about the AUR as I use it plenty myself but for this specific case is there a reason to use vscodium on arch since they ship code as an official package which has a marketplace?
Iirc, isnt that just a build right out of the ms repo? So all the telemetry would still be there by default, which vscodium removes. If I am remembering right, that would be the best reason IMO.