Aur helper with less dependencies than yay

General system Newbie
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I’ve installed yay, but it’s written in go, so I had to install go too.
is there another aur helper with less dependencies?
or maybe I could install yay-bin instead of yay?

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I use baph and it is minimal

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thanks, I look for it

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go is just a build dependency which means you don’t have to keep it after install.

However, if you don’t want that, you can install yay-bin instead it only needs pacman and git which you probably would need anyway.

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but I should install again go with every yay update?

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yes

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It will if you remove it or remove orphans.

Alternatively, you could explicitly install go and then it would just stay installed and not be removed as an orphan.

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Also, all of the above is only true on Arch.

If you are running EndeavourOS, yay in the repos and doesn’t require go

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yes, you are right, it was an Arch question :grin:

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