yay

Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go

Packages

There's a point in everyone's life when you feel the need to write an AUR helper because there are only about 20 of them. So say hi to 20+1.

Yay was created with a few objectives in mind and based on the design of yaourt and apacman:

Have almost no dependencies.
Provide an interface for pacman.
Have yaourt like search.
Minimize user input
Know when git packages are due for an upgrade.

Features

AUR Tab completion
Download PKGBUILD from ABS or AUR
Ask all questions first and then start building
Search narrowing (yay linux header will first search linux and then narrow on header)
No sourcing of PKGBUILD is done
The binary has no dependencies that pacman doesn't already have.
Sources build dependencies
Removes make dependencies at the end of build process

Frequently Asked Questions

Yay does not display colored output. How do I fix it?
Make sure you have the Color option in your /etc/pacman.conf #123

Example of Custom Operations

yay <Search Term> presents package selection menu
yay -Ps prints system statistics
yay -Pu prints update list
yay -Yc cleans unneeded dependencies
yay -G downloads PKGBUILD from ABS or AUR
yay -Y --gendb generates development package DB used for devel updates.
yay -Syu --devel --timeupdate Normal update but also check for development package updates and uses PKGBUILD modification time and not version to determine update