Just recently, after some updating a couple of days ago, I have been getting some weird feedback from yay. I have been getting this warning that some applications are not in the AUR. Packages not in AUR: litehtml0.9 python-pkg_resources. I checked and these applications are not in the core or ex…

Required By: None. By the way, the yay output showing packages not in the AUR is 100% correct, should be a red-flag to check all of the packages it listed like this.

Well, according to the pacman -Qi output, the litehtml0.9 package is not needed by anything currently installed.

I’ve been seeing a lot of youtube videos about the AUR controversy, and that’s why I’m concerned about what yay is telling me. I heard there’s some script or application to check for bad AUR applications-packages, but don’t know where to get it. Do you know where I can get information about it?

Thanks, I didn’t notice that. I ran pacman -Qi python-pkg_resources and noticed that it’s not required by anything either. So, that settles it, I’m going to delete them both using pacman -R. Is there another switch I need to use for a clean uninstall or is pacman -R good enough?

If there had been such a package on the AUR it would have asked before installing it correct?

I would think so, but since I’m a newbie I’m not sure. There sure is a lot to learn with Linux! There’s a lot more knowledgeable people out there than me who can answer your question. I’m learning new things everyday as I go!

[image] kokochu: If there had been such a package on the AUR it would have asked before installing it correct? Absolutely. This happens infrequently, for any number of reasons. At one point, though, these packages were most likely a dependency (build or runtime) of another package that’s no l…

Yeah I remember it happening with the maliit virtual keyboard not too long ago. This is a bit different in that the package still exists in a different form. I expect on new ISOs the older litehtml package wont ever be installed. I wonder where @Jim 's python-pkg_resources came from though. I don’…

[image] kokochu: python-pkg_resources This link pretty much sums it up: `pkg_resources` is deprecated and removed in Python 3.12 opened 07:03PM - 27 Dec 23 UTC (UTC) [image] carlosperate …

Yay issues

General system Pacman & AUR helpers

Mellow August 2, 2026, 6:15am 27

Hard to give a definite answer here because there are so many on this forum alone… Many wrote scripts to check if you were affected when like the first wave of attacks happened, here are some threads

This project is still in beta, but probably more interesting for all the things it can check