NegativePrimesJun 15

"Aaagh! There's malware in the AUR! Abandon ship!"

Me, an inveterate Arch user: *shrug* *sips tea*

You do understand that the AUR is not official and you never need to use it on Arch, right? My Arch install is happily AURless, and has been for years.

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Show threadStreet | Train 🇷🇴 
@negativeprimes back when I tried arch a lot of the stuff I needed was on AUR :(
Jun 16 at 2:43pmWeb
Show threadNegativePrimes6d ago
@wststreet I recognize that everyone has different workflows and needs. If you've found a distro that works for you as is, great! :-) For me, I realized that anything that is on the AUR is also available without the AUR. For someone like me who doesn't care to handle compiling from source on my own, I have gotten a lot of mileage from tools like Distrobox to access apps not in the official Arch repositories.
Show threadStreet | Train 🇷🇴 6d ago
@negativeprimes I'd be curious to try it again one day, the apps I use daily might have changed and maybe there are better ways to get the ones I previously got from AUR.
Show threadNegativePrimes6d ago
@wststreet More power to you! 😃 Good luck either way!