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> For open-source software, use software from popular projects which have a good reputation.

On this topic, how much should a person trust central repositories of well-known operating system distributions (e.g. Arch, Debian)? I know only trusted people can upload to them, and the only time I've ever heard of malware slipping past them was XZ, but I don't know how much care they take.



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