My favorite is pacman because it is fast af but it has really weird syntax’s

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    FYI: yay is no longer maintained (Untrue! See response here). Use paru instead Consider paru as an alternative option; it’s written in Rust and has better version tracking for *-git packages (won’t miss upgrades if the AUR version isn’t tracked, won’t do pointless upgrades if the AUR version changes but HEAD remains unchanged)

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      The latest release of yay was 3 weeks ago. Where are you seeing that it’s not maintained anymore?

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        Huh! I appear to have fallen victim to misinformation. I stand corrected and I apologize for not properly confirm such a strong claim before repeating it like that.

        I suppose a more accurate way to put it is that yay has been slower to adopt new features (e.g.: yay#336 vs paru#260), but otherwise remains a current and well-maintained piece of software.

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          I was about to throw my computer out the window when you said that because I literally just implemented a bunch of ansible playbooks using yay to configure my machines and after yogurt et. al. being abandoned, I couldn’t take another change. Not yet. I’ll check out paru at some point though.

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      Fellow yay user here. Thank you for the advice, will check out paru!

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        Looks like I made a mistake! I was misinformed about yay being unmaintained. I’m sorry about the misleading comment. I personally like paru, but if you’re already using yay there may not actually be any compelling reason for you to switch.

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          I deeply appreciate the correction, thanks for letting me know!

          I’ll still check out paru at some point, but now with less anxiety about the state of yay.