Re: Mitigating malicious packages in gnu/linux

[Pavel Heimlich <pavel.heimlich () oracle com>]

On 11/19/2019 12:33, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> As end user and contributor of gnu/linux, I am concerned about malicious
> packages (either hostile developers or hacked developers or another reason)
> and have two questions:
>
> * What do linux vendors to avoid malicious packages?
>
> * As end user what can I do to mitigate malicious packages?

You can start with installing only packages that are necessary and 
nothing more.