On 4/24/26 8:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
This isn't about education, it's about security.
Agreed,
The priority should be safeguarding the distribution against
sprawling dependencies outside the official distribution, and especially
in the current climate where lag time between identifying a bad package
and removing it can impact a large number in that supply chain.
The KISS philosophy has served Arch well.
People can use whatever AUR helper they like, but that doesn't mean
any particular help need be made part of the official distro. Ralf has
nailed the salient point.
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
