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400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Compromised in a Supply Chain Attack Deploying Infostealers
(cybersecuritynews.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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I think there was a word missing.
To respond to what I think you were saying, this event happened in the Arch User Repository, and not the official repositories.
Arch is very clear that they are not responsible for what goes on in the AUR. For example on https://aur.archlinux.org/ :
The Debian equivalent would be somewhere between extrepo and PPAs.
I think the comment makes sense, if more packages were supported on the main Arch repos there would be less of a need to use the AUR or Flatpaks.
There are definitely some big gaps on the Arch repos (web browsers in particular) that I would like to see improved.
Yep an easy agree. Popular browsers like Zen, Helium and (god forbid) Brave should be directly in the official repos. So should be Jellyfin. It just makes sense given that debian repos have far more packages.
You're right, but web browsers can be pretty brutal to build and they are for sure never going to add -bin versions.
I don't understand this argument. Isn't it better to build once and distribute binaries than to make everyone compile it themselves? The vast majority of AUR packages I use are -bin versions.
You don't get to see the code that way, which is where bad actors thrive. Also it wasn't compiled for exactly your system.
maybe i went offtopic but i was comparing the AUR To Debian's repos, i see that Debian has more packages in its repos(things like Llama-CPP and Open arena is in debian but arch needs the AUR)
thats what i meant