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Remember to be careful with AUR. There's already been malicious code introduced via AUR after someone picked up orphaned PDF viewer as maintainer.
That was in 2018...
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-found-in-arch-linux-aur-package-repository/
The AUR has the same risks as adding a ppa to a debian tree install, or downloading an rpm from a website.
If it's not in the official repository of your repo treat with caution
Yep, but it can happen again. There may already be something undiscovered.
The same is true for all package management systems that work the way that the AUR does.