Arch is a bleeding edge distro. Basically if you hear about some new feature coming to Linux, Arch probably had for about a week already. This obviously has its downsides like stability.
The AUR (Arch User Repository) is basically a list of scripts that anyone can put together. In the scripts are various commands to download a program and how to build/install it. Where it pulls from and how it does it is completely up the uploader. Which makes it extremely dangerous.
This is not representative of the rest of Linux systems and how they function. Arch’s AUR is as close to downloading random installers from a website and running it on your Windows computer you can get.
As for NPM, it’s basically the same thing for JavaScript libraries, but worse.
Arch is a bleeding edge distro. Basically if you hear about some new feature coming to Linux, Arch probably had for about a week already. This obviously has its downsides like stability.
The AUR (Arch User Repository) is basically a list of scripts that anyone can put together. In the scripts are various commands to download a program and how to build/install it. Where it pulls from and how it does it is completely up the uploader. Which makes it extremely dangerous.
This is not representative of the rest of Linux systems and how they function. Arch’s AUR is as close to downloading random installers from a website and running it on your Windows computer you can get.
As for NPM, it’s basically the same thing for JavaScript libraries, but worse.