I never said that GitHub was better. I just don’t feel like using a package maintained by a stranger with no tied to neither the software I want to install nor the distribution packages repository.
Of course installing random code from stranger is never great advice regardless of the distribution source. But AUR is simply not for me, and many users don’t understand the risk or let’s say responsabilities it involves while installing packages from that source.
It is arguably harder to take over a package from github or Codeberg.
You could also serve your PKGBUILD from a Gemini server (the Gemini small-web protocol, not the Google AI which is really easy to administer and secure), and sign it with a PGP key. That would be about as secure without depending on a huge US American company.
I never said that GitHub was better. I just don’t feel like using a package maintained by a stranger with no tied to neither the software I want to install nor the distribution packages repository.
Of course installing random code from stranger is never great advice regardless of the distribution source. But AUR is simply not for me, and many users don’t understand the risk or let’s say responsabilities it involves while installing packages from that source.
It is arguably harder to take over a package from github or Codeberg.
You could also serve your PKGBUILD from a Gemini server (the Gemini small-web protocol, not the Google AI which is really easy to administer and secure), and sign it with a PGP key. That would be about as secure without depending on a huge US American company.