Is AUR reliable?

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How safe is AUR and pacman in general?

Hello, I am new to Linux so my questions might be dumb, let me apologize for that in advance. I want to understand the philosophy of Linux (manjaro and Arch in this case) and its systems. So I have the following questions: Are packages in official repositories - pacman packages - fully open source and carefully checked by devs before getting put on pacman repositories? AUR. As far as I understand, it is a community-based repository and anyone can upload their packages there. It means tha…

How to identify if a AUR package is malware and virus free?

Is there a package or a tool or a service for that I can run in background at all times?

Responsible use of AUR

Be responsible in using the AUR Remember, the AUR is neither officially supported by Arch nor by Manjaro. Using it is at your own risk and your own responsibility. The AUR (Arch User Repository) is like a public library run by volunteers. The books are contributed by the readers and as such we respect both the volunteers and our fellow readers contributing their books for us to read. We all need to be responsible in our use of this repository. We are guests allowed to use the libra…

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