How to set the number of historical packages to be retained?

[witt-bit]

Affected Version

yay -V
yay v12.4.2 - libalpm v15.0.0

Describe the bug

My computer has a small disk space, and the ~/.cache/yay directory is always full. I have to manually delete some previously downloaded source packages frequently. I hope there is a configuration item in ~/.config/yay/config.json that can configure the number of historical packages to be retained. The yay command can help me delete the source packages that have been built or downloaded before.

yay -Pg

{
	"aururl": "https://aur.archlinux.org",
	"aurrpcurl": "https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc?",
	"buildDir": "/home/witt/.cache/yay",
	"editor": "vim",
	"editorflags": "",
	"makepkgbin": "makepkg",
	"makepkgconf": "",
	"pacmanbin": "pacman",
	"pacmanconf": "/etc/pacman.conf",
	"redownload": "no",
	"answerclean": "",
	"answerdiff": "",
	"answeredit": "",
	"answerupgrade": "",
	"gitbin": "git",
	"gpgbin": "gpg",
	"gpgflags": "",
	"mflags": "",
	"sortby": "votes",
	"searchby": "name-desc",
	"gitflags": "",
	"removemake": "ask",
	"sudobin": "sudo",
	"sudoflags": "",
	"version": "12.4.2",
	"requestsplitn": 150,
	"completionrefreshtime": 7,
	"maxconcurrentdownloads": 5,
	"bottomup": true,
	"sudoloop": true,
	"timeupdate": false,
	"devel": false,
	"cleanAfter": false,
	"keepSrc": false,
	"provides": true,
	"pgpfetch": true,
	"cleanmenu": true,
	"diffmenu": true,
	"editmenu": false,
	"combinedupgrade": true,
	"useask": false,
	"batchinstall": false,
	"singlelineresults": false,
	"separatesources": true,
	"debug": false,
	"rpc": true,
	"doubleconfirm": true,
	"rebuild": "no"
}

[jdholtz]

There's no configuration option AFAIK. There has been discussion in some other issues though. From those discussions, I found a couple of external programs that may help solve your issue:
https://github.com/aokellermann/yaycache
https://herbort.me/posts/automatically-cleaning-pacman-and-yay-cache-in-arch-linux/

[witt-bit]

There's no configuration option AFAIK. There has been discussion in some other issues though. From those discussions, I found a couple of external programs that may help solve your issue:AFAIK 没有配置选项。不过，还对其他一些问题进行了讨论。从这些讨论中，我发现了一些可能有助于解决您的问题的外部程序： https://github.com/aokellermann/yaycache https://herbort.me/posts/automatically-cleaning-pacman-and-yay-cache-in-arch-linux/

Thank you very much for your patience. yaycache can completely solve my problem. I can currently complete it by configuring yaycache-hook, but I think this should be the default choice for yay to avoid a very large ~/.cache/yay directory. Most users, as light users, may not investigate so deeply. Using yaycache as a dependency by default is beneficial to the promotion of archLinux/manjaro systems and makes it easier for more people to use it.