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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`
by 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.