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Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted

21 days ago by Karna to c/linux

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Asonyxi 5 points 19 days ago

Man I feel like I dodged a bullet switching to Fedora right before this AUR fuckery started to happen...

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motruck 11 points 19 days ago

You don't have to use AUR to use Arch. Just like PPA for Ubuntu or Fedora's Copr.

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chortle_tortle 1 point 18 days ago

Sure, but as a user it seems like a non-trivial number of packages are only on the AUR vs other distros.

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Scrollone 1 point 19 days ago

I wonder if Ubuntu PPAs are also compromised

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darkstar 1 point 14 days ago

Same. I was on Cachy for a few months but recently switched back to Fedora. I'm sleeping very peacefully.

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