Could there be programmatic ways to help users characterize the safety of the AUR packages they install? Perhaps a program that prints all URLs in the PKGBUILD and offers the option for the user to open them in the browser? Or which automatically shows a diff if a PKGBUILD is updated? Highlighting changes would make it easier for the user to determine if he should spend time exploring those changes for malware.
One could go even further and list all new commits, making it super easy for the user to check them. Maybe even integrate an LLM to help? Maybe commits from non long-time contributors could be flagged?
There has to be a way to help users programmatically review updates to their AUR packages. Even if most of them won't spend the time.
One could go even further and list all new commits, making it super easy for the user to check them. Maybe even integrate an LLM to help? Maybe commits from non long-time contributors could be flagged?
There has to be a way to help users programmatically review updates to their AUR packages. Even if most of them won't spend the time.