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Does yay come default on arch linux?

• farresito 8y ago
  No
• doubleunplussed 8y ago
  Enough people use it that it would make sense to have it in the official packages. However, having to download and build at least one AUR package (yay itself) manually is an important part of being familiar with the process so that you are more likely to take precautions with third party stuff you later install from the AUR. Installing an AUR package without a helper (which you have to do to install a helper in the first place) basically amounts to: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git cd yay makepkg -si But then you would have to manually check for updates etc, so the helpers are pretty useful.
• ElijahLynn 8y ago
  No, but I'll say that it is the single coolest feature of Arch, and I think it should be default. I have been able to install every single package with a `yay` command except for one. My instructions I have for installing yay are: Go to https://github.com/Jguer/yay/releases https://github.com/Jguer/yay/releases Download the yay release and extract it, a clone won't have the build files, download the release. cd to the extracted copy ./yay yay (install the AUR copy of yay using your local copy of yay) Then `yay -S <package-name>` and done, it grabs the repo if it has to and runs the build steps to build from source. It is the most frictionless package management experience I have every experienced on Linux. And I have used `apt-get` on Ubuntu for many (10?) years (go find the PPA yourself dammit) and also `yum` RHEL7 for the past year. Fedora and Debian need something like this too.