Ahh clearly Arch users didn't RTFM before installing shit. Skill issue.
PS: The above is an invitation to self-care, not an insult.
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Reading the manual clearly won't help with the issue here. This is clearly not an appropriate use of RTFM terminology here, because it does not apply. The problem here is not that the user needs to read before asking for help. The problem here is to understand the changes made in the script are malicious. And reading the manual won't help with that.
I must say, Read The Fucking Manual is a bit more clear than Read The Friendly Manual.
I disagree with the post you put here on a single thing: the manual is sometimes bad, by either not describing everything, or being unclear.
Is that worse than not reading it at all? Often it is a lead to something more useful
Useful list for those who do use Arch; I've only got like two things from AUR and neither is on that list (although I kinda recognize a couple with slightly different names, like what, knock off plugins for official stuff?)
I got yesterday an email how one of the packages from this list that I used to maintain was adopted.
Dang, if only their packages were more up to date maybe this wouldn’t have happened.
AUR
Play stupid games win stupid prizes I guess.
As an user of the AUR, this is devastating news to me. I am also guilty of accepting updates without reading the latest changes, even if yay asks me if I want to. This is a reminder to everyone to only install from the AUR for absolutely necessary stuff only, and only if you trust the maintainer. And to at least have a look if something suspicious is going in with the recent changes in the package recipe. AND to read in the communities and news.
I don't understand why there still no official announcement as a warning from the Archlinux team at https://archlinux.org/news/ . Is there a different place for security news specifically about the AUR to subscribe to? EDIT: https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/ They did it, an official message.
The fact that the Arch maintainers seem to prefer Reddit over their own fucking news channel is what made me switch from Arch years ago. I got sick of upstream breaking changes fucking my system because they wouldn't notify people through official channels, only to find it later on /r/archlinux 🙄🙄🙄
They made an announcement though
What are you using now?
After the end of Win10 I moved to arch but I think my week end will be filled with moving again. ^^
On my desktop, CachyOS 💀
It was years ago when Arch pissed me off, but I couldn't resist Arch-based distros forever. So far, I haven't been burned.
On my laptop, Asahi Linux, which is basically Fedora ARM with a custom kernel. I'd recommend Fedora to most general users.
(btw)
Least surprising thing ever. Nothing is reviewed or approved, not even proforma
GOTDAMN
There were announcements and security ping in the arch Linux community discord... But I wish they'd be more vocal on this outside discord especially given discords controversy as of late
Thee's a official Arch Linux D*scord?
No it's unofficial but it's I believe the biggest/primary arch Linux community discord .
In their roles chanel you can pick one to get security pings.. major ones are typically also everyone pinged but some have those disabled
You'll pry #archlinux from my cold dead hands
Wow that’s bad 🫢