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One of the many reasons that makes using Arch Linux a pleasure is the Arch User
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Repository (AUR). The AUR allows users to contribute the scripts (`PKGBUILD`)
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to build a package installable by `pacman`, the system package manager. The
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benefit installing sortware this was, is that all fails are tracked, it's
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easily uninstallable, dependencies can be expressed and installed when needed,
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and you end up helping the community by making it easier for other to install
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software.
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When I encounter some software that is not yet packaged in the main repos or
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AUR I'll often create an AUR package for it. In doing so I become the
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maintainer of that package and am responsible for keeping it up to date. At the
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time of writing I currently maintain 12 packages.
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It would be tiresome to have to repeatedly visit the source repository of every
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project to check for new releases. Fortunately there's a solution to this
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problem that has been around for a long time: RSS RSS lets you subscribe to a
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feed then your feed read checks for new entries and shows them. All you have to
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do is check on your feed reader periodically.
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A perhaps little known fact is that there is an Atom feed for the releases of
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every GitHub project. The URL is that of the release page with `.atom`
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appended. E.g. https://github.com/wezm/titlecase/releases.atom
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