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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
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I start to wonder if we need something sitting between extra and aur, few more trusted maintainers and well secured update process that’s more than the aur Wild West
Also, some sort of yay hook to do some scanning for suspicious diffs and warning or skipping those packages…
I don’t want / need a system where I can blindly update everything, but something to help me avoid having to visually check every package diff would be nice
Yes that would be nice, but I'm not sure that is possible.
I feel like this could be a use for LLMs that isn’t slop. It’s not going to catch everything of course but I imagine it would be a whole lot better than nothing