Neither. Use yay, because it sounds happy.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
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Hehe
I'm using yay, because it was "the new thing", when I switched to Arch (and Arch-based systems)
But after that I've stopped comparing
Is there anything new, that is actually worth switching from yay?
Paru was at one point a rewrite of yay in Rust, and has since continued development as a pseudo parallel fork. It's good. Dunno if it's worth switching, you'd have to see if there's any specific features you might happen to want, but they're both fine
Thanks! :-)
Maybe there's builtin customizepkg or custom repo support in some helper?
I love typing 'yay kitty' on a new install
And now I must follow suit
+1 for happy tool
Switched to yay after yaourt was abandoned and never looked back.
For me paru, but never tried Aura
I have decided against Aura because it splits the commands for AUR from the standard repos. With paru I can upgrade both by running just paru. In the end, that's all I mostly do with an aur helper.
Never used aura but paru is great specially if you also install bat for colored PKGBUILDs.
Makes reading them much easier. I never did before doing this.
Honestly, from a day to day standpoint, by my experience of using both, there's little practical difference between, for example, yay, and paru — it mostly just ends up coming down to subjective, nitpicky meta things about the program itself.
Up until this post, I hadn't heard of Aura, but, after briefly looking at its repo, it appears that it's effectively the same as yay and paru [1.2]; what it tries to do differently is it tries to ensure that there are translations of it (I'm guessing its output) in other languages [1.1.1]. One thing that I'm knee-jerk not super fond of is that it utilizes its own centralized metadata server [1.1.2], though I admit that I haven't thought about that a great deal, so perhaps there are some aspects that about it that I'm missing, or perhaps misunderstanding, or perhaps there's a different way to view it.
References
- README.md. fosskers/aura. GitHub. Accessed: 2024-11-03T05:53Z. https://github.com/fosskers/aura/blob/master/README.md.
- Section: "The Aura Philosophy".
- Section: "Multilingualism".
[...] From the beginning, Aura has been built with multiple-language support in mind [...]
- Section: "Independence".
Aura has its own [...] Metadata Server called the Faur. The Faur in particular helps reduce traffic to the main AUR server and allows us to provide unique package lookup schemes not otherwise available.
- Section: "Multilingualism".
- Section: "What is Aura?".
Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages [...].
- Section: "The Aura Philosophy".
Try each aur helper on your machine and think for yourself.
I use pikaur just bc i like pokemon lmao