Difference between pacman and yay for package management in Manjaro

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Yes - many AUR helpers has capabilities of doing general system maintenance - but it is best to avoid such use.

Using an AUR helper for general system maintenance may introduce hard to solve issues.

Remember that AUR and custom build scripts are unsupported on Manjaro.

Best practise is to use the correct tool for the task

  • use pacman for system updates - thus avoiding problems with custom packages

Always do a full system update - before rebuilding custom packages.

  • use yay for custom build scripts - this is the primary use case for yay

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