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Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There are many popular programs that are only available on the AUR, sometimes even maintained by same project dev.

The wiki also often links to AUR packages.

Both put together means it's really easy to forget that there are no guardrails at all there.

[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

For example if a device manufacturer provides drivers for linux, or a software developer has a version for Arch, but it's missing a pkg build or config file, most users simply won't be ably to figure out how to manually install it and CORE or Flathub probably don't have any official packages for it.

There are millions of such niche cases like this every day.