Running both … Nixpkgs will rightfully laugh about this - in about a month once they caught up on recent events.
Loving both arch and nixos though!
As a nix user, I wouldn’t laugh. We are vulnerable to this type of attack as well.
Heck, it’s surprising we aren’t full of malware considering how many packages there are, and an easy supply chain attack vector with auto RyanTM PRs.
I don’t see how it would happen. Nix is immune bc hashes are constantly checked, you can’t swap in malicious code without a person noticing bc it might throw a mismatched hash error. Also nixpkgs has been really good about vetting packages, I don’t expect them to look too closely into the source codes of everything but if something malicious were to happen like what is happening to AUR someone would see it way faster
It’s 2005 and “you can’t get viruses on
MacNix” advertising is playing all over again
I remember when, I think it was either a log4j or CUPS malware attack, Debian remained unaffected because the packages in its repos was too old.
