Post #1108963
2026-04-12 23:46 UTC
Why would you download precompiled AUR binaries? it just seams more stable and secure to compile yourself, with this your trusting a third party when you didn’t have to.
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@Maiq@piefed.social 2026-04-13 00:52
For me it’s convenience, i try to not have a bunch of aur packages. Some big packages can take a good while to compile. Chaotic is also trying to combat threats by reviewing packages from maintainers that are not in their trust database. While not absolutely perfect at least they are trying to do something. The aur is a use at your own rick batch of packages. Last year there were some malicious packages running wild. AUR expects the user to do their own due diligence and do you really have time to read every bit of code you are about to install for every update in all the possible languages they could be written in? This is why I try to limit my dependence on the aur if possible chaotic or otherwise.