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Caption: Installing an AUR package without reading it’s PKGBUILD.

    • Azzu@leminal.space
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      9 days ago

      I mean how often do you install AUR packages? Usually takes like a minute or so to skim through PKGbuild and the pkg comments and look for obvious issues. And most updates are just a sha hash and version change, taking like 5s to check.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      If you want a bunch of stuff that’s not in core or extra and you don’t want to intensely babysit the AUR, you could try Chaotic-AUR. It hosts prebuilt packages for a bunch of AUR packages which are actively maintained by the Chaotic team.

      I consider it to be more secure than the AUR proper since they actually care for their packages and review nontrivial changes. For instance, the recent takeover attacks didn’t hit Chaotic-AUR builds since the changed packages didn’t make it past the review.

      It’s still an unofficial third-party repository and closer to the AUR than to extra but I consider it a major step up.