Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?
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What does the AUR get you that a:
../configure --prefix=(pwd)/install make make install doesn't?
../configure --prefix=(pwd)/install make make install
Installing dependencies automatically mostly
It gives you a lot of convenience, auto updates, and dependencies. While it is nice being up to date by checking the git and making it by yourself it is much more convenient to have a package manager for it when you have many Make packages