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Arch Linux: Stop recommending people to use makepkg for the AUR

jD91mZM2 on January 06, 2018

This is relevant to Arch Linux and the Arch User Repository. If you don't know what that is, no need to read this article. Alright, there seems ...
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OnFileNotWanted • Edited

i think the general conSENSEus on #archlinux is that, by all means use an AUR helper, BUT familiarise yourself with mkpkg beforehand as the said helper WILL break on pacman updates. Forewarned if forearmed
heres a wee shell script, by default it opens the PKGBUILD in $EDITOR for you to peruse BEFORE installing anything
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Dmitrii

yay