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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

AUR is really not that great? Who moves to Arch for it? It's been my main OS for I don't even know how long but AUR has been my primary pain point. PKGBUILD is cool and useful useful. AUR however, is untrusted (or rather shouldn't be trusted), often out of date, sometimes requires compilation, and doesn't even have any good pacman wrappers since yaourt (that I'm aware of).

Am I missing something?

[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

doesn’t even have any good pacman wrappers since yaourt (that I’m aware of).

paru is cool

[–] sxan@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] gbin@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have an hard time moving out of yay... TBH if AUR could be installable from pacman it would be awesome

[–] gfrewqpoiu@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is technically possible to install paru through Cargo which you can get just from pacman by installing rust and you can install pikaur through PIP. Both can mess with your systems packages though so I do not recommend it.

[–] gbin@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Oh thank you for the tip, I forgot paru was written in rust and of course rustup is on ally machines (btw?) ;)

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