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Yay – AUR helper

Yay (Yet Another Yogurt) is an Arch User Repository (AUR) helper tool.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

  • Advanced dependency solving.
  • PKGBUILD downloading from ABS or AUR.
  • Completions for AUR packages.
  • Query user up-front for all input (prior to starting builds).
  • Narrow search (yay linux header will first search linux and then narrow on header).
  • Find matching package providers during search and allow selection.
  • Remove make dependencies at the end of the build process.
  • Build local PKGBUILDs with AUR dependencies.
  • Un/Vote for packages.

Website: github.com/Jguer/yay
Support:
Developer: Jo Guerreiro
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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