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Arch Linux Blocks New AUR Registrations Amid Malware Cleanup (linuxiac.com)

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[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

AUR is not unique in being a user repository, but it seems somewhat unique in having basically zero oversight. Which is a bad idea for reasons that should be painfully obvious by now.

For comparison, Gentoo's GURU repository allows everyone to submit packages, but limits the ability to accept these submissions to a subset of trusted users

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

GURU bills itself as an official repository that's user-maintained. AUR makes no claims of being official as far as I can see from their website.

[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The AUR domain is aur.archlinux.org and it is linked from the menu-bar on archlinux.org. If AUR is not official, then the Arch sure is sending mixed signals to its users

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Absolutely 100%.

Not to mention it's in most of the solutions to every problem Arch users face.

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