Based on this issue I additionally removed AUR from global search in GUI. This might have created some weird regression.
So why that move?
- Pamac is the most used AUR helper
- Manjaro seems to be the biggest user of Pamac
- As soon as you have AUR enabled, even just for fun, we did also search the AUR with every letter you typed
- With the newer 10.2 release series we also added auto-suggestions to the AUR
- This all resulted again into a DDOS, which brought the AUR down
Sadly we made 3rd party software “repositories” a first citizen in Manjaro and Pamac itself. Sure it is nice for the user to have a global search result on all major Software platforms at once. This is how we designed it. However, if a platform can’t handle our extra request rate we have to take action. Sometimes those can be more radical.
Requests within 6 hrs when AUR went down …
So either our user agent is totally blocked by the Arch Servers, which would mean Pamac for Manjaro won’t work with the AUR at all (other distros using Pamac, would still btw.) or we reduce the user experience in the graphical UI. You can still use Pamac as regular AUR helper in CLI mode, in which we didn’t change anything.
So follow this issue, be constructive and be sure that we work closely with AUR developers to get this sorted out.