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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] 3 points 1 year ago

I'll add to what was said by others, but about [I] and [No]

When building there is a cache. Sometimes you remove make dependencies, which removes the program but keeps a copy in cache. (There are other ways to remove a program and still keep it in cache)

[I] means it will clen build all installed packages and use the cache for those that are not installed but were present.

[No] means it will leave installed packages untouched but will rebuild those that are in cache before reinstalling them.

Hope that solves it. And as said before - in 99.99% cases None is good enough.