New unofficial user repository: enhancedX11

Arch Dinosaur · Yesterday 11:10:31

Recently a new unofficial user repository was added to the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unoffi … nhancedX11

It contains a collection of functionallity and performance enhanced X.Org X11 server packages, drivers and more, mostly for X11. The packages are signed and indexed, and new and updated ones are added regularly.

Lone_Wolf · Today 11:29:34

Where can users see the PKGBUILDS you use to build the binaries and what environment are they built in ?

Are updates reviewed by humans before they're applied ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (Today 11:57:36)

Arch Dinosaur · Today 11:49:47

The PKGBUILDs will be provided at some time but in general don't differ much from Arch's of the AUR (after review of course).
The packages are all built in a clean chroot each time on Arch Linux.
There's no AI/Vibe coding involved, only human work.
The packages are already being used by another distribution.

Arch Dinosaur · Today 11:53:02

A known issue is that on AMPGPU and QEMU Virtio Video graphic cards the mouse cursor is displayed vertically crushed and with a slight offset.
For now the workaround can be used that I submitted here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xse … te_3682903

... this configuration section in eg. file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-modesetting.conf can be used as tested on QEMU Video Virtio:

Section "Device"
Identifier "QEMU Video Virtio"
Driver "modesetting"
Option "SWcursor" "on"
EndSection

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Trilby · Today 11:56:01

Arch Dinosaur wrote:

The PKGBUILDs will be provided at some time...

Can you elaborate on why this is the case? I'd rather give the benefit of the doubt that there could be a good reason, but frankly this sounds quite suspicious. I'd not expect any fancy interface for viewing / interacting with them, but if they aren't even publicly available anywhere, I'd not expect any competent user to accept the packages or use the repo.

Also if they don't differ (much) from the stock arch linux packages, how can there be "functional and performance enhancements"?

You're new to the forums and posting about a repo with no transparency. Again, I'd rather not assume ill will, but that's a lot of red flags right from the start.

seth · Today 12:38:01

w/o https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Reproducible_builds it's blind trust anyway, but w/o the PKGBUILDs is even a black box as to what I'm even supposed to buy into.

Arch Dinosaur · Today 13:45:08

Before creating the repository I checked the Arch Wiki guidelines and found nothing about the requirement to provide the PKGBUILDs upfront. I checked some existing repositories and saw that some provide them, and some don't, and that it's even allowed to provide unsigned packages. So, I postponed submitting the PKGBUILDs to the AUR. As I do not have an account I wanted to register for one but the site showed me:
New account registration is temporarily closed
Registration on the AUR is paused while we deal with a wave of automated account creation.
Hopefully that restriction will be lifted soon and I completely understand there will be users that do not want to install packages for now; that's their prerogative of course.

headkase · Today 14:12:10

Arch Dinosaur wrote:

Before creating the repository I checked the Arch Wiki guidelines and found nothing about the requirement to provide the PKGBUILDs upfront. I checked some existing repositories and saw that some provide them, and some don't, and that it's even allowed to provide unsigned packages. So, I postponed submitting the PKGBUILDs to the AUR. As I do not have an account I wanted to register for one but the site showed me:
New account registration is temporarily closed
Registration on the AUR is paused while we deal with a wave of automated account creation.
Hopefully that restriction will be lifted soon and I completely understand there will be users that do not want to install packages for now; that's their prerogative of course.

Instead of beating around the bush why don't you resolve the issue? Post the text of the PKGBUILD's here and settle the matter or just keep engendering mistrust.

seth · Today 14:33:06

Putting them into a subdir of the repo server or uploading them to a (linked) public git repo might be more useful, but I'd like to stress again: w/o support for reproducible builds you're still down to *trusting* the binaries w/o any chance of verification.

Many of the user repos build AUR packages, some are maintained by TUs - but as the big fat red warning at the top of the page makes utterly clear

The wiki wrote:

Warning
The official Arch Linux developers and the Package Maintainers do not perform tests of any sort to verify the contents of unofficial user repositories. It is your decision whether to trust their maintainers, and you take full responsibility for any consequences of using any unofficial repository.

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