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The AUR is effectively a pastebin for PKGBUILD files.

Some people (many of which don't even use Arch itself) have been treating and advertising it as something different. It's not a software distribution method meant for normal computer users.

And for those that aren't aware, a PKGBUILD file is just a bash script.

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