Is thr solution truly to tell people to read the build instructions and decide if a package is safe? I’m not an arch user, but I’ve used nixos and assessing nixpkg before installation gets old real quick real fast. Somehow I really doubt telling an average user to assessing pkgbuild on their own will be very effective.
Somehow I really doubt telling an average user to assessing pkgbuild on their own
Arch Linux is not really made for the average user, and using code from AUR even less so. I doubt it that everyone using Arch+AUR or CachyOS or youname it is served well by this.
And making it kind of accepted norm to run untrusted code as a non-technical user will bite the Arch community in the ass. For Arch, it is a phony measure of success to have many such users.
This is also a result of Windows user attitudes leaking into the Linux universe. You need to discern code and data, and you can’t run untrusted code, period.
Is thr solution truly to tell people to read the build instructions and decide if a package is safe? I’m not an arch user, but I’ve used nixos and assessing nixpkg before installation gets old real quick real fast. Somehow I really doubt telling an average user to assessing pkgbuild on their own will be very effective.
Arch Linux is not really made for the average user, and using code from AUR even less so. I doubt it that everyone using Arch+AUR or CachyOS or youname it is served well by this.
And making it kind of accepted norm to run untrusted code as a non-technical user will bite the Arch community in the ass. For Arch, it is a phony measure of success to have many such users.
This is also a result of Windows user attitudes leaking into the Linux universe. You need to discern code and data, and you can’t run untrusted code, period.