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400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Compromised in a Supply Chain Attack Deploying Infostealers (cybersecuritynews.com)
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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

it’s more like a bunch of community install scripts for stuff that isn’t officially supported yet - for popularity or other reasons.

I'm looking at the list of affected packages and many of them are in official debian repos. Isn't the issue then that the official Arch repositories don't have many packages and people have to use less secure sources? That still sounds like an Arch issue to me.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Arch actually has a large amount of official packages. Maybe some of the packages you're referring to are just slightly renamed or alternate versions?

It's possible that in some areas it has fewer packages of course (e.g. Debian might repackage a larger subset of PyPI as Python packages), but I need the AUR for very few things.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Isn’t the issue then that the official Arch repositories don’t have many packages .....?

Not at all. The official Arch distribution has tens of thousands of packages and the user repository / AUR probably more than 100,000 .

Edit: I looked it up:

  • According to distrowatch.com, the Arch Linux distribution has over 17,000 packges by now
  • Meanwhile, the number of packages in the Arch User Repository is 114,000 .
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Just because there is an official package doesn't mean someone can't make an aur one with the same name, or with common misspelling.