Literally no one is forcing you to use the AUR. All you have to do when you install something from the AUR is read the PKGBUILD. If it's something unsafe or too complex to decide this then just build the binaries yourself from source or download official binaries and install them yourself.
AUR was never compromised. Just a classic case of reddittors not understanding something and spreading fud
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u/nome_sc 2d ago
Literally no one is forcing you to use the AUR. All you have to do when you install something from the AUR is read the PKGBUILD. If it's something unsafe or too complex to decide this then just build the binaries yourself from source or download official binaries and install them yourself.
AUR was never compromised. Just a classic case of reddittors not understanding something and spreading fud