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is it safe use AUR pakeges at Artix?

what the best way use aur here?
yay
pacman -U
makepkg
?

i need nvidia 340 driver
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Re: is it safe use AUR pakeges at Artix?

Reply #1 –
over time I've done all, although obviously using pacman -U won't update if the package on aur gets an update.   As with anything that uses AUR, caution and restraint is required as many an over enthusiastic arch individual as found to their cost!   But to date, for the likes of printer drivers etc., no issues.  I don't have an nivd, but for a new install if i had a 340, i'd (probably) give it a go, so if it messed up, its not a big deal to start again (as nothing much else would have been added anyway). oh, and if a package normally uses sysd, its not a huge effort to get it working with another init, depending on the init of course.

Re: is it safe use AUR pakeges at Artix?

Reply #2 –
ok, thanks!
so i cant broke system if try use aur?
-=linux its buggy crap that have no antifool protection (c)=- :)
*linux is free software, and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY* :)
+ALL YOURS ACTIONS at Linux YOU DO at YOUR OWN RISK!+ :)

Re: is it safe use AUR pakeges at Artix?

Reply #3 –
it depends on what you install as to whether you break it or not, same as any OS that uses AUR etc.   Just get stuff like that done before much else, so if it does wreck it, nothing much lost.

Re: is it safe use AUR pakeges at Artix?

Reply #4 –
Pakku and Yaourtix have some extra features for Artix, although all the functionality of Yay works as well in Artix as in Arch if you are happy with that. It's generally advised to know how to use makepkg as a first step in using the AUR though, so you understand the process to be able to resolve any difficulties.
Yes, you can break your system by using the AUR if you are not careful, but you can do that easily enough in many many other ways too if the hardware doesn't go wrong by itself. :D  Make a regular back up, at least backup important files, to restore from!
Read the comments on the AUR package page, see if it's flagged out of date, and look in the PKGBUILD which in many cases will reveal systemd dependencies, for hints of potential problems.

Re: is it safe use AUR pakeges at Artix?

Reply #5 –
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Pakku and Yaourtix have some extra features for Artix, although all the functionality of Yay works as well in Artix as in Arch if you are happy with that. It's generally advised to know how to use makepkg as a first step in using the AUR though, so you understand the process to be able to resolve any difficulties.
Yes, you can break your system by using the AUR if you are not careful, but you can do that easily enough in many many other ways too if the hardware doesn't go wrong by itself. :D  Make a regular back up, at least backup important files, to restore from!
Read the comments on the AUR package page, see if it's flagged out of date, and look in the PKGBUILD which in many cases will reveal systemd dependencies, for hints of potential problems.

I had not heard about Pakku or Yaourtix, so I will look at the extra features for Artix they have. I have used paru before and have found that the downgrade AUR package to also be helpful if you need to easily roll back to an AUR package's previous release.

Re: is it safe use AUR pakeges at Artix?

Reply #6 –
Well you should be warned you might be slightly disappointed if you try right now, due to the relocated repos for binary PKGBUILD's currently in Pakku (pakku-git) the -Sz and -Sn features to rebuild binary packages only work for Artix and not Arch repos, the Arch repos changed completely in layout compared to a minor change for Artix, although that will probably get fixed eventually. I don't think Yaourtix has been updated at all in this regard though. In Pakku you can choose what version to build so you can build older versions of binary packages but with the proviso you might run into backwards compatibility issues in some cases with build or run deps, especially if you go back a long way, because the PKGBUILD's are usually written with the "current" versions in mind.

Re: is it safe use AUR pakeges at Artix?

Reply #7 –
Chaotic aur.