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#1 2023-09-23 09:52:10
- omgold
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Build yay as official package
I wonder if it isn't time to include yay (pacman wrapper with AUR support) in the distro.
- It is currently the number 1 popular package in AUR.
- It updates regularly and takes quite a bit of time to build, so slows down people's system updates.
So I think it would make sense.
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#2 2023-09-23 10:16:11
- a821
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Re: Build yay as official package
IIRC, It was agreed long time ago by the devs that no AUR helpers will ever be in the official repos.
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#3 2023-09-23 10:43:18
- dogknowsnx
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Re: Build yay as official package
- It is currently the number 1 popular package in AUR.
It's also one of the 2 most unpopular packages around here...
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#4 2023-09-23 12:54:01
- Roken
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Re: Build yay as official package
I sacked yay after issues building and the multitude of dependencies it needs jus to build. Besides, the Arch Way is to do it yourself. Why do we need helpers in the official repos?
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#5 2023-09-23 13:04:56
- Trilby
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Re: Build yay as official package
I'm all for starting a poll to see if users want to have yay included in the main repos... so long as there is another option to vote to have it instead removed and banned from the AUR.
Neither of these is going to happen though.
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#6 2023-09-23 13:41:03
- Muflone
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Re: Build yay as official package
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_Tr … repository
Yay is both a pacman wrapper (it will never be included) and an AUR helper (it won't be included until there are strong reasons to discuss before).
AUR is unsupported by Arch Linux, so the AUR helpers are unsupported too, another reason for which it won't be included in the repositories.
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#7 2023-09-23 13:50:06
- a821
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Re: Build yay as official package
FYI: Previous discussions from 2010 in mailing lists:
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/li … N5UBPF4BGC
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/li … MOLQYEBQIM
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#8 2023-09-23 14:24:55
- sydneyj
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Re: Build yay as official package
I sacked yay after issues building and the multitude of dependencies it needs jus to build. Besides, the Arch Way is to do it yourself. Why do we need helpers in the official repos?
Agree completely! Taken further, why do we need an installer in the iso?
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#9 2023-09-23 16:18:13
- Trilby
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Re: Build yay as official package
AUR is unsupported by Arch Linux, so the AUR helpers are unsupported too, another reason for which it won't be included in the repositories.
While I agree with the result of this (that AUR helpers would never be in the repos) I don't agree with the logic as it seems circular: something will not be supported because it has not previously been supported. That - by itself - isn't really grounds to not support it.
The fact that aur helpers tend to totally suck and help users break things while also remaining ignorant of how and what they broke is pretty good grounds not to support them.
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#10 2023-09-23 23:41:59
- Allan
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Re: Build yay as official package
Yay is both a pacman wrapper (it will never be included)
FYI - pacman wrappers (and graphical frontends) have been included in the repos in the past. It is the AUR part that is the issue.
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#11 2023-09-24 04:28:36
- cloverskull
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Re: Build yay as official package
When it comes to official repos and AUR, I prefer a separation between church and state. Plus, installing yay from scratch is dog simple and only requires reading a few lines of their github page.
I do like a higher “activation cost” for enabling AUR, such as requiring manual installation of an AUR helper. I think this really helps disambiguate between what is supported and what is something users will have to figure out on their own.
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#12 2023-09-24 08:59:29
- raggerv8
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Re: Build yay as official package
- It updates regularly and takes quite a bit of time to build, so slows down people's system updates.
Install the binary? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yay-bin
The only “Aur helper” I'd argue to see in the repos is aurutils, and that won't happen either.
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