[Stable Update] 2023-07-10 - Kernels, Plasma, Gnome, LibreOffice, Pipewire, Mozilla, Wine

I wonder why this service is needed. It does key refreshes out-of-band.

The keys are for installing packages from the repos, the repo brings the two keyrings. Why would I ever need to refresh the keys?

Or is this a security measure for keys from the AUR?

This has nothing to do with the AUR.

Check out the explanation in the script file.
wkd_sync/archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync · master · Arch Linux / Arch Linux Keyring · GitLab

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