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Arch Linux: The AUR malicious packages incident continues to happen (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca to c/keralalinux@lemmy.ca

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CachyOS provides many packages that are not available in the official Arch repo. But no matter what, I still prefer vanilla arch over anything else... What about you?

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Debian repo, yeah. Generally.

AUR is particularly risky because anyone can submit software.

But if you heavily rely on 3rd party Debian repos, check out the maintainers, as their security isn’t necessarily on par with the official repo.

…And I can help but think that tons of users do this on Debian/Fedora for non FOSS packages, like Nvidia drivers, certain parts of ffmpeg and such.