Comment by embedding-shape

> Orphaned packages should not be adoptable by just anyone. Maybe there should even be a global rate limit on this as a sign of attack.

Why not? I agree some limits should be added, but also shouldn't be too limited, then lots of things that could be properly maintained, won't. Maybe limit adoption to one package a month or something, to users registered since some date. But no one has automatic (& unreviewed) updates applied to their locally installed AUR packages (that'd be utterly bananas) so the attack vector is already pretty small here.