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The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a repository that contains PKGBUILDs which are created and maintained by the community.

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How am I supposed to inspect a PKGBUILD?

With AUR, you are expected to manually verify the PKGBUILD file and install scripts. What/how are you supposed to actually do this? What are some red flags to look for, what are common things done by legitimate packages that are "okay"? Often the…
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