Don Raikes <speakup at linux-speakup.org> wrote: >I appreciate all the suggestions. > >FYI: according to a blog post I read the arch packages are not signed, and >even if they are pacman does not verify signatures when installing. Be careful - that's outdated information. There was an article about this a while ago (I think it was n LWN). All Arch packages are signed now as a matter of policy. I haven't used Arch but I just wanted to correct what you read in that blog post.