OP hasn't used AUR much
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2025
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You don't even have to use the aur are to have breaking changes. Most recently they changed how vlc was packaged. And broke it causing a lot of problems for users.
Do you actually need - Syyu or is - Syu fine? I have only really used the latter.
The only difference is that -Syyu forces the database to update
To explain what database means in short, it tells pacman what packages are available in different repos (e.g. core, extra). In some rare cases, the time of the database update may be incorrectly marked, and pacman would not know there are new packages/versions. -Syyu should be used in this case.
Really should keep that PPA use to a minimum. They're potentially a source of not just instability but possible malware as you're putting a lot of trust in whoever maintains that resource.
Especially because there is no way to limit the packages installed from a PPA AFAIK. If the PPA has a "new" version of NGINX, or of libc, or of Wayland - you get it, too!!!
You can set packages from a particular repo to a lower priority so that they are only installed when you expressly ask for them
How does one do that, Wise Zorro?
https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#Using_pinning
The company I work for has a apt repo that both has some tools I like to install, but also maintains super new versions of certain libraries and kernels with configs that would break my laptop.
So I have the priority set low enough that if a package exists in any other repo it it preferred over my companies version.
Also sorry for the slow reply I forgot to check my messages 😄
I saw someone on ml point out that update should come before upgrade
update pulls the metadata about your packages (to see if there are new versions, and which), while upgrade applies the patches.
Break your system and it's broken.
How unexpected!