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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 04:00:39 UTC Bernie

   Is paru still a reasonable choice of #AUR helper for #archlinux ?

   Before I used yay and trizen, both of which became unmaintained. I just noticed that paru hasn't been updated in over 1 year...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 21:28:16 UTC Bernie

     in reply to

     • Shorty

     @unfortunateshort There's a pinned comment on the paru package in AUR with a vague note on this issue:

     "you're better off contacting her via the github, this comments section is 90% "it's out of date" from people who didn't scroll down before posting"

     I didn't read *11* pages of comments, but two recent ones say:

     "As Morganamilo said:
     Not out of date. Just people flag it as such."

     "https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/discussions/974 They said that paru-bin is the officially supported and is not out of date. Idk"

   • Shorty (unfortunateshort@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 21:28:17 UTC Shorty

     in reply to

     @codewiz If you look at paru's git repo, you will notice there are changes just a few weeks old. It seems to be anything but dead.

     I also wouldn't expected something as fundamental as a package manager to be updated all the time - especially when it's written in Rust. That would be more of a bad than a good sign imo...

     Although close to a year *is* quite some time. Maybe dev was just busy with life?

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 21:47:09 UTC Bernie

     in reply to

     • Shorty

     I added my comment to the pile, but I doubt there will be a straight answer to my simple question:
     https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru/discussions/974#discussioncomment-7417861

     @unfortunateshort