mprweb VS lure

Debian has the MPR https://mpr.makedeb.org/

https://mpr.makedeb.org/ this is the link.

I know the MPR is a thing, but I've always found it unwieldy to use.

So the main difference from something like MPR is that it does that same thing, but for more packages, not only .deb files?

Regarding system repositores, it's generally best to avoid tampering with system repositories like this because it'll cause problems with release upgrades down the line. But if you really want to, look into https://mpr.makedeb.org/ with the expectation that a release upgrade with these packages installed will most likely fail.

makedeb - Like makepkg, but produces installable *.deb files. There are already lots of packages in the MPR

Actually exists! https://mpr.makedeb.org/

Mist is powered by the MPR, an AUR-like repository that's also for Debian and Ubuntu based systems (of which I'm also the project lead for, as well as the makedeb project listed below). In short, it uses pretty much the same PKGBUILD format that you'd see on Arch Linux, but uses them to build .deb packages instead of Arch Linux packages.

Understandable, but have you looked into LURE? Haven’t tried myself (I use Arch btw) but this might work better for you. Also check this and this, in case you can setup a server that will just update packages list and download required packages so that your main machine will not struggle that much

Version 0.0.7 of LURE, a distro-agnostic AUR-like build system, has just been released. It's available at https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/lure/releases/tag/v0.0.7. Github mirror at https://github.com/Arsen6331/lure.

A few months ago, I announced LURE, the AUR alternative for non-Arch distros. As of yesterday, LURE now has a web interface containing all the packages and all the information about them. It is available at https://lure.arsenm.dev/. I've also created a logo for LURE, which is used on that site.

There is a very interesting new project called lure which aims to bring AUR like features to most distros. I've been using it to manage some apps on my home server.

Appimages and LURE

lure - More ambitious in its goals: wants to bring PKGBUILD to more than just APT

To find the less obvious bugs and missing features, and to increase the usefulness of LURE, I'd like to ask anyone who is willing to add packages to the repo at https://github.com/Arsen6331/lure-repo. The documentation for LURE's build scripts is available here: https://github.com/Arsen6331/lure/blob/master/docs/build-scripts.md.

Link: https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/lure