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Understanding the yay install options (self.archlinux)
submitted 1 year ago by Portside9089 to c/[email protected]
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When I install something from yay, I get following options: Packages to cleanBuild? [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)

Does anyone has an explanation about the options or could share a link?

Besides some people asking the same question, I couldn't find any documentation about what each of these options do and which ones are recommended.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yay keeps a cache of packages to help building go a bit faster. Sometimes it can cause issues if things have changed that the cached build system can't detect. Clean build removes the cached files and re-downloads everything to install. None means don't clean build, all means all listed packages that need upgrading. don't know about installed vs installed I never used those flags. The numbers correspond to the number by the package if you want to only select specific ones.