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Arch Linux Blocks New AUR Registrations Amid Malware Cleanup (linuxiac.com)
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[-] kieron115@startrek.website 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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 13 hours ago

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 12 hours ago

Absolutely 100%.

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

[-] BB_C@programming.dev 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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.

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 0 points 12 hours ago

With a nice, big disclaimer.

[-] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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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