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 …

I use Paru - I had some weird issue with yay where it'd seem to get stuck for quite a long time at a particular moment while updating the system? Don't remember and haven't had the same …

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.

Jun 25, 2021 · Paru has seen a good amount of popularity and so far there's been 30 other contributors which I'm happy to see. There's also been good amount of new features since the …

Fyi, there's a paru-bin package as well, if you're like me and hate wasting CPU cycles and raising your thermals to compile.

Paru also has an actual config file with a more pacman-like syntax in contrast to yay. But it could be better documented and yay had nicer sensible defaults imo. But yay definetly still is a great …

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 …

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.

94 votes, 167 comments. i was thinking about it. i know it's okay to use just paru/yay instead of pacman but this question just lived in my head the…