Russian law requires for an alternative market and some goverment approved apps to be preinstalled. And since google refuses to certify certain Russian developers and is banned in Russia it would mean that smartphones would be required to be degoogled to be sold.
As a Russian I would say that in 2022 their were similar actions against Russians as well. The only thing it achieved was boosting Putin's rating and hate towards the west. So, if you want Netanyahu (and alike) to rule forever this is exactly what you need.
But saying that xbps-src is like the AUR is very misleading because it lacks the "U" part.
It is misleading because AUR is a repository, but xbps-src is not. It is a tool like makepkg in arch. One could argue that xbps-src is a more advanced tool as it also acts as a package manager itself.
A repository that is most commonly used with xbps-src is void-packages which is maintained by void teamm one could build a repo for xbps-src like aur, but to my knowledge it has not been done and is unlikely to succeed any time soon due to a smaller user based compared to arch.
Well, Russia would be even better.
Russian law requires for an alternative market and some goverment approved apps to be preinstalled. And since google refuses to certify certain Russian developers and is banned in Russia it would mean that smartphones would be required to be degoogled to be sold.