repo VS aports

as for the transparency, you have to add something in your vs code's settings.json. follow instructions from this link: https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo/blob/master/archlinuxcn/code-transparent/code-transparent.install

i found a PKGBUILD for Telegram: https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo/tree/master/archlinuxcn/telegram-desktop-megumifox

Interestingly, https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo have already included it in their repo, and there's always https://privacyshark.zero-credibility.net, which also provides it as a binary / in a regular user repo.

Use a third-party repo (e.g. archlinuxcn has libjpeg-xl package, but it is outdated)

there's a binary package in archlinuxcn repo. (from what I see this repository is maintained by very well known people like Felix Yan so I guess it's OK to use it)

alpkg is a tool for all your Alpine packaging needs. It can create a chroot with preinstalled tools in a matter of seconds, set up aports repository, and fetch/update packages. Most importantly, it provides a split layout via Zellij for easy editing/building APKBUILD files.

A nice feature of Alpine Linux is that the package repository is a relatively straightforwardly-structured git repository containing build scripts for each package:

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/

It's worth reading the contributor guide[1] before signing up and providing any fixes and improvements - and from there, hopefully it's a relatively familiar workflow for many developers.

[1] - https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux:Contribute

1) docker and qemu (using qemu-user-static) 2) alpine-chroot-install (https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-chroot-install/) 3) bootstrap.sh (https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/blob/master/scripts/bootstrap.sh)