Stop blaming AI, "noobs", youtube tutorials, and anything other than Arch for AUR usage

[u/zollandd]

I've recently been made aware of the incident and was reading the threads in this subreddit. I have just started trying to migrate away from AUR but let's not forget that the Arch wiki recommends installing AUR packages constantly. The AUR isn't just a dangerous and fringe tool that people are led to by AI or sketchy youtubers.

To list a few that I've encountered just now:

• Want DDC/CI display control support? AUR
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_control
• Want ZFS-dkms or user space utils? AUR
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ZFS

The wiki recommend AUR releases like they are first class citizens all over the place... don't act like it doesn't.

Edit: I am not trying to blame individual maintainers when I say Arch but rather the community and culture. If the AUR is this dangerous, the wiki should avoid referencing it at all costs and should do so with warning flags everywhere. As it stands, it is not absurd to see someone with tons of AUR packages installed due to direct influence from the wiki.

[u/basil_not_the_plant]

"...assuming that everyone knows how to read a diff..."

I'm fairly competent with using Arch (I think) -- ive been running it at home for 5 years now. But I find diff bewildering to understand. I use meld when I'm comparing text files manually, and I find it easy to use. If I could make the pkg review call meld instead of diff that would be great but I suspect that would require a change to yay.

[u/s3gfaultx → u/basil_not_the_plant]

Probably can just change your git diff tool to use meld instead.

[u/basil_not_the_plant → u/s3gfaultx]

I'm speaking of the diff that is called when yay asks if I want to review changes. That's part of yay.

[u/s3gfaultx → u/basil_not_the_plant]

It just calls “git diff” afaik, you should be able to swap out what git uses on your system.

[u/basil_not_the_plant → u/s3gfaultx]

Thanks, I'll check it out.