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[โ€“] Noxious@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it make more sense to just yay -Syu to update everything, normal packages and AUR packages?

[โ€“] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The reason I did it like this is because:

  • I didn't know yay could invoke pacman
  • I didn't want yay "upgrading" my pacman packages with AUR packages.

But I was just misunderstanding yay. As another comment said before you, one can just run yay without any arguments and it accomplishes the same thing.

[โ€“] Noxious@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Yay doesn't replace normal packages with AUR packages. Btw It's not just an AUR helper, it's a wrapper for Pacman with AUR support built-in. Check out paru btw, it's a more modern version of yay that basically works the same way: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru