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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WHERE IS PACMAN, our HOLY SAVIOR?

Jokes aside, paru.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why are there so many paru fans? Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don't scream code quality. I prefer yay.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Because it's written in rust ofcourse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also sounds much happier, yay!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kid you not, that was my first reason to adopt it (next to having a short name).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because paru has a working sudoloop and config, unlike yay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yay sometimes asks for sudo even when sudoloop is on, and paru's config is in an easy to find location.

Oh, and you can change the program paru uses for root access.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I honestly go back and forth. Depends on which one I decide to try next time I reinstall. I actually used aura for a while, but switched back to yay for the --sudo flag. (I use opendoas)