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yay
- How to find the download command for a program.
- Newish Linux user : package management woes
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Top Productivity CLI Tools I Use on Linux
yay is a robust and user-friendly AUR (Arch User Repository) helper for Arch Linux and Arch-based distributions written in Go.
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Installed Arch Linux
paru has better defaults and --chroot, whereas it's still an open issue for yay.
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Discovery gives "The PackageKit daemon has crashed" error suddenly (Arch)
If you use AUR packages, you might want to use an AUR helper that wraps pacman, like paru or yay.
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I'm seriously so sick of the pop ups on every website I visit.
This one: https://github.com/Jguer/yay Didn't know there were others..
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List of available software to install?
you can use an aur helper like yay
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ERROR after python3.11 update
Yay is hopelessly broken, it pretends to rebuild stuff when, in fact, it doesn't. See: https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2153
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GPU and Motherboard drivers needed?
If you want, use a nice AUR helper afterwards (I like Yay https://github.com/Jguer/yay but there's plenty to choose from).
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Update of leagueoflegends-git script and the AUR package for transitioning to 64-bit wine
I am using this for years now. https://github.com/Jguer/yay
rua
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Node.js packages don't deserve your trust
> While I find projects in those other languages to also have too many dependencies, it's no where near what happens in JS apps. I'm thinking of projects I've recently worked on in Rust, PHP, and Java.
My experience with these new languages is such that this feels a bit unfair. It's like insisting that a disaster with 1000 fatalities is "much worse" than one with "only". It's ... true ... I guess, but there's something uncomfortable about making the comparison. Something has gone badly wrong if the comparison even needs to happen in the first place.
What I'm getting at is that e.g. Rust has an enormous problem in this area. It's not uncommon for me to see Node projects with over a thousand transitive dependencies, but on the other hand, I very frequently see Rust projects with over a hundred. And the Node projects tend to be more complicated than the Rust ones; they do more.
Take the last Rust program I tried to use, tealdeer. [1] If you don't know, tldr is a project that provides alternative simplified man pages for commonly used programs that consist entirely of easy to understand examples for the program. [2] What a tldr client needs to do is simply to check a local cache for each lookup, and if necessary update the cache online. It's a trivial problem that can be, and has been! [3], solved in a few hundred lines of shell (if you're being extremely verbose). How many recursive dependencies would you guess tealdeer uses? Depends on how you count, of course, but as of today the answer is ~133 deduplicated dependencies! For a program that's a glorified wrapper around curl!
Or another Rust program I looked at recently, rua [4]. In Arch Linux, the AUR is a repository of user maintained scripts for building and installing software as native Arch packages. Official tools for the building and installing software already exist for Arch, but it is common for users to use a wrapper around these tools that makes fetching and updating the software from the AUR easier. It's a relatively simple task that (once again) can be done with shell scripts. rua is such a wrapper. As of today it uses 137 deduplicated dependencies!
These Rust programs are simple terminal tools to do tasks that are almost trivial in nature. And yet they require hundreds of constantly updating dependencies! The situation may well be better than what you'll find for Node, but it's undeniably disastrous compared to either simpler languages without a built in package manager (like C) or more complicated batteries-included languages where best practices continue to prevail (like Python).
[1] https://github.com/dbrgn/tealdeer
[2] https://tldr.sh/
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Paru vs Yay vs Other (please specify in comments)
I gotta dig into rua too, seems cool!
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Is there an AUR helper that can automatically apply custom patches?
Rua can do local patches (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helper#Comparison_tables)
What are some alternatives?
paru - Feature packed AUR helper
trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
ansible-aur - Ansible module to manage packages from the AUR
spotify-adblock-linux - Spotify adblocker for Linux
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
xbps - The X Binary Package System (XBPS)
aur - A secure, multilingual package manager for Arch Linux and the AUR.
ani-cli - A cli tool to browse and play anime
ReplaySorcery - An open-source, instant-replay solution for Linux
fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.
vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing