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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of these packages have Arch-specific modifications. For example, filesystem doesn't even have a non-Arch upstream as it defines the filesystem layout. That PKGBUILD and everything it depends on is the Arch source. Distributions are defined by which packages they include.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

ah, thanks for the clarification!