> You have to review the source of every PKGBUILD from the AUR you install, full stop
I don't really think this is a solution- the usual workflow for these attacks has been to hide your payload in some dependency. This one is somewhat unusual in that it's just a very lazy `npm install` in the pkgbuild. Pretty much every package repository even outside of AUR has this issue now, and it's not really viable to audit the entire dep chain by hand.
Mind you, I don't have a solution either.
I don't really think this is a solution- the usual workflow for these attacks has been to hide your payload in some dependency. This one is somewhat unusual in that it's just a very lazy `npm install` in the pkgbuild. Pretty much every package repository even outside of AUR has this issue now, and it's not really viable to audit the entire dep chain by hand. Mind you, I don't have a solution either.