yay VS trizen

yay is a robust and user-friendly AUR (Arch User Repository) helper for Arch Linux and Arch-based distributions written in Go.

paru has better defaults and --chroot, whereas it's still an open issue for yay.

If you use AUR packages, you might want to use an AUR helper that wraps pacman, like paru or yay.

This one: https://github.com/Jguer/yay Didn't know there were others..

you can use an aur helper like yay

Yay is hopelessly broken, it pretends to rebuild stuff when, in fact, it doesn't. See: https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2153

I switched from Arch to Gentoo because I ended up increasingly dependent upon AUR packages. That's not a big deal by itself, but I kept running into more and more frequent build failures with AUR packages that I couldn't sort out. This despite the fact that I used a very nice AUR package manager called Trizen. The final straw was when I started using hardware that, for some reason, didn't play well with Arch at install time but worked just fine with Gentoo.

see here: https://github.com/trizen/trizen/blob/master/TRIZEN.md

As a side note, I use the trizen AUR helper program to install AUR packages because one of it's nice features over yay, etc, is that it by default shows the content of the PKGBUILD and any other files (patches etc) for an AUR package, so you can see or edit them before installing a package.

doas pacman -S --needed --asdeps pacutils perl-libwww perl-term-ui perl-json perl-data-dump perl-lwp-protocol-https perl-term-readline-gnu && \ \ curl -L https://github.com/trizen/trizen/raw/master/trizen | perl - -- -S trizen