Feb 13, 2023 · Which AUR helper is better - yay or paru? What are advantages or disadvantages of them? Which one handles dependencies/updates better?

Iirc, paru is a "fork" or "parallel continuation" of yay but it's based on Rust instead of Go. Both will do I guess, but for me, yay is just quick and easy to type.

Paru. it feels every so slightly faster - but more importantly, it has some cool features than yay doesn't. Ex: paru supports building packages in a clean chroot. this is an awesome feature if …

paru is a pacman wrapper with access to the Aur. pacman is Arch package manager wich doesn't have access directly to the aur If you don't use the aur or prefer building manually check out …

Oct 19, 2020 · Hmm, paru and paru -Syu do not work on aur-stable: error: no targets specified (use -h for help)

Mar 3, 2021 · paru is the replacement for the now deprecated yay. yay is no longer developed, so you should swap. It works the same, just yay -S paru; paru -Rns yay; alias aur=paru; done

It seems yay already fixed this with a new release. paru usually takes a bit longer to fix this. The AUR packages for yay and yay-bin are also already fixed for the new libalpm version. On …

Jun 24, 2022 · Paru does update both AUR and regular arch packages by default, but there's a setting in the confjg file for that. Look at the confjg file in /etc/paru I think it was there. …

Oct 28, 2020 · paru - paru-bin - paru-git - repo Changes from yay Last week I announced my new AUR helper paru. Since then a lot of testing has gone in and a lot of bugs fixed by me and help …

Jan 5, 2022 · I recommend paru because I think its defaults do a better job helping new users actually look at PKGBUILDs and I prefer its approach to deal with multiple builds at once.