On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 01:37:59PM +0200, kleines Filmröllchen wrote:
> paru (which I use almost exclusively for building AUR packages, except my
> own and when things severely break) shows you the PKGBUILD and every single
> file in the package repo, including with diffs if you are updating the
> package. There is the --skipreview flag but it’s not the default (and I only
> found out now that it exists when double-checking the CLI).
> 
> All to say that these arguments are a bit hypocritical, since it’s already
> so easy to build AUR packages in a careless manner. I would argue that at
> least paru makes this harder (while still saving time). I have never used
> yay so maybe the situation is worse there, I can’t speak to that.
> 

That's actually sounds really good. The main reason why I use yay is because of
popularism (at the time) and it sticked with me. I have not used paru,
mostly because I didn't know about the pros/cons of all the different
AUR helper. 

I might just switch to paru then

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