Maybe we should actually slowly switch to paru 
Maybe you should learn how to install packages manually, and update them manually, before using an AUR helper.
Just sayin’.
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Seriously? Yay is broken like twice in 2 years and you want to switch to paru? Oy.
Once it’s fixed, it’s easy to just rebuild it. No big deal.
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Here the patch. But I guess you were already busy with it 
From cadfee2b65be919ee276c22841e903261ecb084f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: moson-mo <moson-mo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 00:31:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix AUR
---
pkg/settings/args.go | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/pkg/settings/args.go b/pkg/settings/args.go
index 2ac583bd..20698a6c 100644
--- a/pkg/settings/args.go
+++ b/pkg/settings/args.go
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ func (c *Configuration) extractYayOptions(a *parser.Arguments) {
}
}
- c.Runtime.AURClient.BaseURL = strings.TrimRight(c.AURURL, "/") + "/rpc.php?"
+ c.Runtime.AURClient.BaseURL = strings.TrimRight(c.AURURL, "/") + "/rpc?"
c.AURURL = strings.TrimRight(c.AURURL, "/")
}
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Just a thought, it is said that paru would be the successor of yay. For me it’s not worth it anyway, except timeshift and imagewriter I have nothing from the AUR (at least until now).
It’s taking over at the speed of wayland… . . I wouldn’t worry about it.
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I think that was primarily said by the developer of paru, who might be a bit biased. And possibly overly optimistic.
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It’s a thought from a standpoint of having more than one solution. A lot of us keep multiple web browsers, why not more than one AUR helper?. That being said, it also doesn’t hurt to know how to install straight from the PKGBUILD.
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All that being said, it appears the fine folks at EOS have yay in their own repository so I suspect the fix will eventually just come right to us.
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That would be the “intermediate” part of the distro. One hiccup with yay and it’ll separate the lazy Arch users from the never before Linux users in one short update.
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we build yay directly from AUR let`s see what we can do.
It will need to be checked by @manuel
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And manually update AUR packages after install.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository#Upgrading_packages
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This is true
Did Manjaro people DDoS the AUR again with their pamac software? 
The website is okay, though, so probably not.
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But I thought they asked their users very politely to not do that anymore?
Dude. @Kresimir Thank you. I haven’t laughed that hard in a VERY long time. hahahaha
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Oh, then that can’t be it, we know that asking politely always works… 
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The issue is affecting me as well (yay!), but I have no problems waiting it out, I’m fully confident the issue will be resolved. Till then, enjoy the lovely weekend!
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This is why people should use a proper helper like aurutils 
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$ yay -S aurutils
-> response decoding failed: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value
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This is a great way to kick off Friday night drinking!
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