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Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 12, 2025first mention
Aug 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“the latest version of yay (v13+) supports being able to skip recently added packages through its new Lua extension system”
“if you just use "yay" you don't run into Pacman woes”
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“Ho-hum, so I gave this yay-thing a try, as a binary, out of CachyOS repos, and let it run an outstanding update of 77 packages”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
- Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption 1 mention
- AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks 1 mention
- Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages 1 mention
- AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit 1 mention
- Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux 1 mention
- Wayland Nvidia 1 mention
Data: yay.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“the full tray is just one yay away, which also speaks git.”
“the latest version of yay (v13+) supports being able to skip recently added packages through its new Lua extension system”
“Whenever I have installed a package from aur with yay it requires user being part of sudoers.”
“find ~/.cache/yay -maxdepth 1 -type d”
“if you just use "yay" you don't run into Pacman woes”
“Ho-hum, so I gave this yay-thing a try, as a binary, out of CachyOS repos, and let it run an outstanding update of 77 packages”