Trick-17/arch-installer

Replace AURA

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NOhs commented

Aura has some severe issues. It does not reliably determine package dependencies and it offers no assistance in adding PGP keys to the trusted list for AUR packages. Instead it just fails.

I tried out Bauerbill which works reliably. But it has some minor annoyances which I am not sure I can change in the settings. Maybe I will also try another package manager. But we should consider to replace AURA for version 1.2.

NOhs commented

Ok. Pacaur could be more what we are after. While the author claims it is not for beginners, I find it very easy to use, and very clean.

NOhs commented

Ok, so to install as a user is super simple, because it has almost no dependencies.

pacman -S yajl expac
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/cower.git
cd cower
makepkg
pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz
cd ..
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pacaur.git
makepkg
pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz
cd ..
rm -rf cower pacaur

I will create a feature branch and to replace AURA.

GPMueller commented

Are you confident that Pacaur better meets our requirements?
In what way would it be harder to use "as a beginner"?

NOhs commented

I have no idea. For me it seems like the easiest to use.