AUR 'out-of-date' message

[dalto]

@drunkenvicar

is my criteria of selecting an AUR package by downloads and likes…is that valid at all?

Hmm…votes and popularity give you a rough idea of how popular a package is. It is reasonable to assume that a more popular package has more eyes on it than a less popular package.

However, it doesn’t have much meaning in an absolute sense. Really, you should choose the package you actually want and then review the PKGBUILD and other files to determine if you are comfortable with it.

Here is some good information about how to review a PKGBUILD:

AUR PKGBUILDs

The AUR is one of the safest ways to install software, just because it is so transparent. But it does not tolerate just looking up the package in Pamac and clicking on the Build button, or doing yay package_name blindly. It requires that the user knows what’s going on. That’s why I recommend trying to build at least one package manually, to understand what’s going on, before using an AUR helper like pamac or yay. yay has a nice feature that allows you to inspect a PKGBUILD file before installin…