yaycache

Flexible yay cache cleaning similar to paccache.

Usage

Usage is essentially the same as with paccache.

See man yaycache for more information, or view the docs here.

Pacman Hook

You can use yaycache-hook package (similar to paccache-hook) to automatically run yaycache with configurable arguments after your pacman transactions.

yay -S yaycache-hook

The configuration is stored in /etc/yaycache-hook.conf.

Systemd service

An optional systemd service is included that will run weekly:

systemctl enable --now yaycache.timer

Installing

An AUR package is available:

yay -S yaycache

Building

You can build the package yourself:

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make check
make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir"