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Despite it being one of the most popular and feature rich download managers out there and it being foss, it seems that most repos don't have it ( except for flahub iirc) Is there is any reason behind that?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s just not that popular

i don't think so there are far more less mainstream and ancient programs in the repos

It is available in AUR, though

the AUR is "Arch User Repository" witch is community maintained repo ..so i don't think that counts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

In the end everything is maintained by the community, the only difference is that AUR is "everyone can maintain" and official is "we have team of official maintainers that decided to maintain these packages". Personally I can't imagine running without using AUR

But it's fair if it doesn't count for you