Respectfully, I don’t think anything needs to be changed on the AUR. I’ve
adopted packages only because it was easy.

If I had needed to jump through hoops to do so, then I certainly would have
left it for someone else.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2026 at 12:46 PM Frank W. <[email protected]> wrote:

> In my opinion having external account linking, although somewhat useful
> to combat this, would be absolutely horrible. Not to mention the fact
> that not everyone is registered or has any kind of interest in having an
> account on such services.
>
> On 6/17/26 13:20, Braeden Theriault wrote:
> > Why not add an account link requirement for package adoption? Say
> > linking a Google, proton, or GitHub account as those are atleast a
> > little more difficult to script into existence.
> > For most people who have atleast one other account it wouldn't be an
> > issue, but a script or attacker would have to create said accounts at
> > the same time as the arch accounts.
> > A side effect would be slowing down the rate a human attacker could
> > create new accounts aswell.
>

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