Here's what finally tipped the scales after all this time.
The Arch Linux team has warned users for years about verifying each AUR package before installing it. The Arch Linux team is the second Linux distro that has found malware on its user-submitted ...
A recent episode of a Linux news podcast I keep up with featured an interview with a journalist who had written a piece for a non-Linux audience about giving it a try. It was surprisingly widely read.
Malware is once again spreading via Arch User Repositories. Therefore, there are no updates for AUR for the time being.