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Jguer/yay

Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Jguer/yay · homepage · Go · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

96/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 89
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 12.0
  • age_days: 3649
  • days_rel: 75
  • days_push: 11
  • n_releases_24m: 11

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

13711 stars · 419 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

yay is an AUR helper for Arch Linux written in Go that wraps pacman to manage both official repository and AUR packages from a single pacman-compatible CLI. It provides advanced dependency solving, PKGBUILD downloading, makepkg-based building, AUR search with completions, and package voting.

Use cases

  • install AUR packages from the command line
  • upgrade all packages including AUR in one command
  • search and narrow AUR package results
  • download PKGBUILDs for local modification and building
  • remove make dependencies after builds
  • vote for or unvote AUR packages

When to choose

  • you use Arch Linux or an Arch-based distro and want a single CLI for repo and AUR packages
  • you want advanced AUR dependency solving and interactive provider selection
  • you are migrating from yaourt or pacaur and want a maintained replacement

When to avoid

  • you are not on Arch Linux or a pacman-based distribution
  • you prefer a minimal setup and want to use makepkg and pacman directly
  • you need a GUI package manager

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli package-manager developer-tools developer-tools operating-systems cli aur-helper arch-linux pacman-wrapper pkgbuild go command-line linux

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
Jguer/yaymain96

For agents

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