Is it possible to specify the location for yay to use when installing a package?

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I am trying to update eclipse-java, but while installing, it also compiles eclipse for various other languages and ultimately runs out of space on the partition.

Is it possible to tell yay to use a different location to store the build files during this process so that it does not run out of space?

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yes
man yay will tell you.
You can also look in ~/.config/yay/config.json

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you may edit the PKGBUILD file manually and makepkg
Look at the source pkgbuild here
edit the line that says

pkgname=(eclipse-{java,jee,cpp,php,javascript,rust})

to something like

pkgname=(eclipse-{java,cpp})

or whatever language you want from the list.

makepkg wiki article for reference

I have not used yay, so can’t comment about yay-specific workflow

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Right, I think I missed it when I was looking before, thanks!

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Thanks, that’s very helpful, will give it a try!

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So I edited the package build and it worked well!

Except I think I in fact have the eclipse package installed. I only need Java though, not any of the other languages.

The AUR page says to remove eclipse-common, but doing so gives another error as removing eclipse-common breaks dependency 'eclipse-common=4.14-1' required by eclipse-java

I’m not sure how to proceed here, any advice?

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try to remove all eclipse-* packages you compiled from AUR and start from scratch. You won’t lose any user config.
pacman -Qm will list all AUR packages.

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Thanks, I think that will probably work.

I only have eclipse-common and eclipse-java so it will be the same effect as removing and reinstalling the package right?

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