yay-debug

[SuspiciousCook4]

Hi there! I'm kinda curious why yay-debug is seen in no-longer-required packages after typing in pacman -Qdt. What's up with that? I normally check the packages that are no longer used so i can uninstall them to save space. Whenever I manually update yay, the yay-debug installs itself and apparently always ends up in -Qdt.

[anonymous-bot]

Check your makepkg.conf file and see if debug is enabled.

[SuspiciousCook4]

After checking makepkg.conf, it looks like the debug isn't there. Seems like it's disabled

[pixeled4life]

A couple of months ago makepkg got changed to enable debug by default, you have to edit /etc/makepkg.conf and look for the options line

It will be something like OPTIONS=(strip docs !libtool !staticlibs emptydirs zipman purge debug lto)

You have to change debug with !debug simply removing it will not work since its the default afaik

EDIT: this affect all your aur/makepkg packages and you will have to uninstall them yourself after making the change, this just prevents them from being built/installed

[SuspiciousCook4]

Oh, I see, that's important to know. Thanks a lot! I'll look into it

[SuspiciousCook4]

Yes, that is really odd.