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Arch Linux Blocks New AUR Registrations Amid Malware Cleanup (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    All community projects are open contribution. Most non-community ones too. You know, almost the whole point of open-source!

    But that's not the same as "user repo", which is a wild west concept on purpose.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 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

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    With a nice, big disclaimer.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    Which is not much different from the disclaimer about GURU, though GURU does a much better job at explaining the risks involved in using it:

    Disclaimer

    Please note that the GURU project is maintained and reviewed entirely by Gentoo users. It is only subject to minimal supervision from individual Gentoo developers, and is not supported by projects such as Gentoo Security. While our Trusted Contributors do their best to keep GURU safe, it is possible for it to contain vulnerable, badly broken or even malicious software. You are using it on your own responsibility.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago*

    It's officially centrally hosting the non-pre-moderated non-official user contributed build-scripts, where "user" means literally anyone.

    I'm not sure what argument you're trying to "win", and to what end. Or why do you think anyone would care about the manufactured confusion you're trying to concoct.

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