Yeah, I admire the arch linux’s team transparency. A non-power user might see these news and think “linux is dangerous”, without thinking that windows and mac also have malicious programs that can be installed too.
I haven’t seem all packages, but some of them seem shady and with 0.0 popularity on the AUR, it’s already suspicious by itself. People gotta be careful when installing AUR packages.
Yeah, I admire the arch linux’s team transparency. A non-power user might see these news and think “linux is dangerous”, without thinking that windows and mac also have malicious programs that can be installed too.
I haven’t seem all packages, but some of them seem shady and with 0.0 popularity on the AUR, it’s already suspicious by itself. People gotta be careful when installing AUR packages.
I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones.
What sort of standards are these packages built to?
Well, the packages are not supposed contain malware for a start.
For the AUR I think anything goes.
Well, cardboard’s out.