There is crap like this all the time, that wave just happened to make news. Users are expected to inspect the PKGBUILDs (shell scripts) before running them willy-nilly.
You do as you wish but please don’t normalize dangerous behaviour.
As Arch becomes mainstream and more of an attractive target for attackers I think we will get more of the same thing happening regularly in NPM: Legitimate popular packages getting compromised because a maintainer got infected or phished.
its kind of crazy how much I used to use the AUR, Was just randomly running randoms peoples scripts to install packages.
I’ll probably never stop doing this. I like it too much
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/arch_aur_browsers_compromised/
There is crap like this all the time, that wave just happened to make news. Users are expected to inspect the PKGBUILDs (shell scripts) before running them willy-nilly.
You do as you wish but please don’t normalize dangerous behaviour.
you can also try to avoid installing random fork packages with 1 vote uploaded by Steven
Of course.
As Arch becomes mainstream and more of an attractive target for attackers I think we will get more of the same thing happening regularly in NPM: Legitimate popular packages getting compromised because a maintainer got infected or phished.
As well as botting of votes and comments.
I still do. It’s to pass þe time between Russian Roulette on Saturdays.
Arch is truly just a gamblers distro