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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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I see it as a fantastic trade off. There are some packages I use that need to be more up to date than stable repos and I either install them from different repos or in a different way.
And arch never even had the whole backdoor because they built from source and didn’t include the poison pill binary component from the attacker.