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IMO they should have made this the official policy instead of adding optional support for the AUR in pamac.
At the end of the day, the AUR is just a pastebin full of pkgbuild files for people who know what they're doing. And as a distro aimed more at the average Linux user, rawdogging the AUR probably just shouldn't be part of the equation.
Could they not have created an AUR mirror and delayed that to be in sync with the main repo's? It would have solved the AUR ddos that the Arch team got mad about a few times and the out of sync dependencies.
The AUR just hosts pkgbuild files, no source or built packages. The pkgbuild can point to arbitrary external sources that could update separately. Manjaro could have their own AUR that hosts old pkgbuilds, but that wouldn't be foolproof since the external sources could change. Also, if a pkgbuild was updated for security reasons, now Manjaro is putting users at risk by continuing to serve the old version, and now that's another problem for them to solve.
Hold up, isn't that last point just a criticism of delayed updates in general? By that logic, would Manjaro be putting users at security risk by holding back the main packages?