> Tiny official repos. You're going to have to rely on the user-submitted repos for most of your packaging needs. It's cool how easy it is to make a package and submit it to the AUR, but I don't love the idea of installing random user-submitted stuff for the bulk of my software needs.
Can you expand on this? My system contains a total of 20 "foreign" packages from the AUR and private sources, installed over a period of 5 years. It's certainly not even close to "most of my packaging needs", because I have 1267 "native" packages installed.
Some of these foreign packages could be in the official repositories, but most are modified or built-from-source versions of existing packages, software that is now in the repositories but wasn't when I installed it, or don't belong in the repositories at all.