Mactan

ive added existing prefixes to heroic without issue so far

they also got distracted by a project rolling their own distro instead of focusing on Bottles. same fate has befallen lutris

it’s a story Star Trek Enterprise should have gotten to tell in full

it’s got nothing on Angola’s flag

To potentially prevent this entire class of npm attacks in the future, you could edit /etc/pacman.conf, uncomment

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =

And set it to IgnorePkg = npm

Your system should prompt you to accept installing npm because it’s in the ignore list. These packages set it as a dependency, so that gives you a chance to notice that something’s off and refuse the install. This assumes you don’t already have npm installed or need it for some reason.

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/FGXPCB3ZVCJIV7FX323SBAX2JHYB7ZS4/

edit: word is that bun command is being abused as well and may be worthwhile including in the space separated list:

IgnorePkg = npm bun

oh wow the third xda post of the year about ntsync. it’s been on since November 2025 btw