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Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 10 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

Who’s “they”? Because it’s not Arch. Arch doesn’t want to have anything to do with AUR, and neither does any of the Arch-derived distros. They’re all perfectly happy taking advantage of it, of course, but not the responsibility.

Where did you got this nonsense from? What do you mean "they are not Arch"? The AUR is managed and operated by the Archlinux team. As the packages are community-driven content, they cannot guarantee and give support, because it is not their package. But they are still managing and supporting the AUR itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    it's not managing, as you seem to imply, it's just hosting.

    Arch hosts the AUR repository, the maintenance of the packages is on the developers who developed the package.

    If someone sneaks in spyware or malware inside the makepkg, that isn't arch's fault, that's the maintainers fault of the makepkg.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    If someone sneaks in spyware or malware inside the makepkg, that isn’t arch’s fault, that’s the maintainers fault of the makepkg.

    I don't think that anyone argued otherwise.

    I even said it in the very reply you are replying:

    The AUR is managed and operated by the Archlinux team. As the packages are community-driven content, they cannot guarantee and give support, because it is not their package.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    And you're gonna see the Arch team wash their hands of the whole thing, like they did in the past whenever the AUR was in trouble.

    That's not real ownership.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Do you have any sources, links or evidence for your statements?

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Is the current state of the AUR, despite the previous waves of attacks, and its troubled history, not evidence enough? The Arch team has never made the AUR a priority and I don't see why they would start now.

    The way I see it there are three possibilities:

    • They do nothing.
    • They shut it down.
    • They give it up for adoption.

    What is not going to happen is the Arch team putting time and effort into overhauling the AUR.

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