Since its a gateway to massive security risks, it should NOT be included during install. For safety, let the person install it themselves. Cause this is a massive issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u3alhe/roughly_400_aur_packages_compromised/

Thanks for the heads up. I guess we shouldn’t read too much into your posts if you just removed your brain… :exploding_head:

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[image] Cina: I will never use nor condone LLMs. The world is better without them for so many reasons. You can’t put that toothpaste back in the tube.

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An update on this: netinstall: Remove paru (#239) cachyos ← remove-paru opened 04:21PM - 19 Jun 26 UTC (UTC) [image] ptr1337 …

due to incorrect dependency resolution for non-AUR packages; adding to that each AUR PKGBUILD must be reviews manually by the user and the user must build all AUR PKGBUILDs inside clean chroot(which will break most of the PKGBUILDs hosted on the AUR) I’m guessing this explains why some people end…

any suggestions to use paru/yay for all operations(-Syu, -S) is dangerous to the system This is something I often tried to impress upon new users. There is a growing habit of people using AUR helpers to “bundle” software operations and that’s caused many issues with dependency resolution between …

As long as bootstrap requirements are met (some way), it’s good. However, at least for me, choice of distro is the recipe(s) they use in software pre-load/configuration and the winner is the one that requires me to do the least in getting a system up.

[image] Danny_Barron: However, at least for me, choice of distro is the recipe(s) they use in software pre-load/configuration and the winner is the one that requires me to do the least in getting a system up. I agree with this. I’m a staunch supporter of the Arch philosophy yet I still use Ca…

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An update on this:

As a new user to CachyOS, I'm overwhelmed with the options for package installation. Do we really need three different GUI wrappers, or am I just missing something?