With regards to Karam's crapperware, it should never have ended up in the repo's in the first place. The moment it became clear that Karam was just throwing scripts in a package (scripts he found online, which he didn't understand himself at all) the packages should have been pulled. And it became even more annoying with the tons of threads about problems that were created by these scripts, for which Karam was not able to provide help.

As much as I believe in the open repo model, I tend to believe that tight and strict quality control is of vital importance. Practically for me that would mean something in between the Debian way and the Ubuntu way.

Slightly off topic, but recently I also noticed some license violations on a closed source package. Shouldn't there be some supervision for that as well?