Pamac and base Arch
Pamac and base Arch
Recently Pamac began acting sluggish whenever I attempted to fetch anything from the AUR. I quickly narrowed it down and found the issue tied to changes made after Pamac was removed from the AUR. The latest patch came a month ago, and it was recently pushed three weeks earlier. Despite that, the PKGBUILD for Pamac on the AUR still hasn’t been updated. To work around this, I installed libpamac and pamac directly from Manjaros’ GitLab. They built and installed without problems using Flatpak, Appimage, and Snap support. During the configure phase of pamac, Meson issued a few warnings about missing Manjaro-specific daemons and services—only manjaro-mirrorlist was caught. The build completed successfully. Since I’m not very experienced with C builds, I’m concerned whether these missing services might cause problems later or if Meson will compile Pamac without the required support.
I believe pamac-all and libpamac-full were intended for the AUR, focusing on specific versions rather than upstream sources. libpamac-full hasn't seen updates since November 14, 2021, yet the repository was last refreshed on February 23, 2022, suggesting it aligns with Stable Releases. Meson acts as a build tool; if it succeeds, all defined requirements are met. Missing services or optional dependencies depend on Pamac's internal handling. Since the PKGBUILD pulls an existing Manjaro archive without changes, its behavior should match the AUR package.