[SOLVED] Migrating off yay to manual builds only

dogbr3ath · 2026-01-23 19:50:40

I either did not see this page, or missed the giant red warning on my first read through regarding AUR packages. But now that I've read the relevant articles, I would like to migrate to managing AUR packages purely through the manual build process.

So what I want to do is remove yay, and anything related to it that I don't need, and make sure all my AUR packages are manually downloaded, built, and installed.

What steps would I need to take in order to cleanly complete this migration?

Last edited by dogbr3ath (2026-01-23 21:51:06)

seth · 2026-01-23 20:52:30

Pretty sure yay keeps its cache in some ~/.cache subdirectory by default.
In order to manually download, build and install packages you'll have to manually download, build and install them - I'm not quire sure what the question is itr?

dogbr3ath · 2026-01-23 21:24:42

seth wrote:

I'm not quire sure what the question is itr?

I’m basically trying for figure out what I need to remove or uninstall in order for there to not be any conflicts or left over files.

Cleaning out the cache is a helpful tip. Any other similar tips would be helpful as well.

seth · 2026-01-23 21:30:40

Nothing - yay wraps makepkg and pacman and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yay has no further dependencies (you'll need git to fetch the AUR packages no matter how)
Next to the cache there's probably a config but its presence is rather meaningless.

dogbr3ath · 2026-01-23 21:50:55

Got it thank you!

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