>which don't have any benefit of being a part of a "build" system anyways
Building a package doesn't imply compilation of the binaries the package is composed from. Packages are meant to provide easier distribution and maintenance.
Building a package doesn't imply compilation of the binaries the package is composed from. Packages are meant to provide easier distribution and maintenance.
The distribution aspect of the AUR is useful given the various tooling/helper utilities around it, but I don't see it as more effective than flatpak if you're just using binaries that already exist. While the AUR is a bit more of a direct path, you don't have to worry about system level dependencies changing and breaking the binaries with flatpak (even if that does result in more disk usage as a side-effect).