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[Kresimir]

Yeah, of course they’re going to say that. They want you to add their repo.

Personally, I wouldn’t (at least not without first trying the AUR packages), but it’s your system.

[FAQ] The dangers of using 3rd party repos

This is something I wrote last year and posted somewhere else. I thought it was worth sharing here as I see a lot of people using 3rd party repos. There are often discussions about the dangers of using AUR but it seems like there a lot less focus is on the dangers of using 3rd party repos. In general, using a 3rd party repo is much more dangerous than using AUR. With an AUR package, everything is fully transparent and the package is built on your machines. A quick look at the PKGBUILD file wi…