Fedora COPR
Shares rank 8 of 9 package repositories by recommenders
Gives Fedora users community-built, often cutting-edge software builds. Main caveat: many packages lag behind new Fedora releases.
Gives Fedora users community-built, often cutting-edge software builds. Main caveat: many packages lag behind new Fedora releases.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 60%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Cutting-edge builds of popular software
“The primary community repository hosting cutting-edge builds of Hyprland”
Comment from 30 Aug 2026 in “Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root” “some big COPR (the latest one being for plasma 6.7) admirably well”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images” Simple way to keep software updated
“You can easily setup a copr repo for this to solve the auto update qualms”
Comment from 12 Aug 2026 in “I hate packaging my software for Linux” “you can start with a COPR repo instead”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Rune is now open source”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Trust and reliability concerns
“I am really really weary of installing anything from "user" repos, whether it's AUR or Fedora copr.”
Comment from 21 Feb 2026 in “How to Review an AUR Package” “COPR causes enough problems that I'd recommend avoiding it entirely”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Terra - A rolling-release Fedora repository” “Same can't be said for COPR or PPAs”
Comment from 21 Feb 2026 in “How to Review an AUR Package”
Other package repositories people recommend
The four most recommended other package repositories, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nixpkgs | 38 | 22 | 63% | 11 | — | — |
| Arch User Repository | 34 | 74 | 31% | 5 | — | — |
| Arch User Repository | 20 | 23 | 47% | 10 | — | — |
| crates.io | 17 | 18 | 49% | 9 | — | — |
| Fedora COPRThis page | 6 | 4 | 60% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“you can start with a COPR repo instead”
“The primary community repository hosting cutting-edge builds of Hyprland”
“You can easily setup a copr repo for this to solve the auto update qualms”
“Fedora has a similar thing COPR”
“some big COPR (the latest one being for plasma 6.7) admirably well”
“A ton of packages haven't been updated for Fedora 44 and this will cause issues.”
“Same can't be said for COPR or PPAs”
“I am really really weary of installing anything from "user" repos, whether it's AUR or Fedora copr.”
“COPR causes enough problems that I'd recommend avoiding it entirely”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.