What does HackerNews think of termux-packages?
A build system and primary set of packages for Termux.
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Termux has an open source repository of packages. It's similar to arch, debian, alpine, etc. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages
Termux doesn't get special privileges unless you root your device. It can't go messing with your phone data unless you granted it permission to do so (but even then it doesn't have access to everything). It's no worse than any other Android app IMHO.
I tried this out a little while ago and I was really impressed. It's worth mentioning that this isn't just a Debian chroot/container, the software is actually compiled to run natively on the Android NDK. It seems like they work around any limitations of Bionic compared to glibc by patching NDK headers and using support libraries.
Check out their "ports tree" to see what packages are available: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages
Looks very nice. You should perhaps make the github/source link[1] a bit easier to find, than just pop it on the help-page -- at first I thought you were ignoring the GPL for bash etc.