neurobin / pacget

A wrapper around pacaur to mimic yaourt's search feature

NAME

pacget -- A wrapper around pacaur to mimic yaourt's search feature.

SYNOPSIS

pacget [operation] [options] [target(s)]

pacget [packages_to_install]

All arguments are forwarded to pacaur excluding some special ones which are processed separately to provide some extended functionalities over pacaur.

DESCRIPTION

pacget works the same way as pacaur and consequently pacman. All basic operations are processed with pacaur which wraps around pacman and thus you can use the same knowledge of pacman and pacaur.

pacget extends some operations provided by pacaur, such as the search functionality. pacget's -s operation searches both the official repo and AUR for the given search term and allows installing packages interactively (kinda like yaourt).

DEPENDENCIES

It depends on the following packages:

1. pacaur

INSTALL

Run the install.sh script:

# download the installer
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neurobin/pacget/release/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh # Give execute permission
./install.sh        # Run the installer

USAGE

It can be used the same way as pacaur (consequently pacman). The only difference is that some options come with extra facilities.

Examples:

# Upgrade
pacget -Syu

# The following installs the package linux-lts
pacget -S linux-lts

# The following is a short form to pacget -S linux-lts
pacget linux-lts

# The following will search only arch official repo
# and give you option to select packages to install
pacget -r -s gimp

# The following will search only arch user repo aur
# and give you option to select packages to install
pacget -a -s gimp

# The following will search for gimp in both official repo and AUR
# and give you option to select packages to install
pacget -s gimp

pacget's Issues

Result spacing - bug: first result lacks spacing, feature request: can spacing be toggled?

I'm also wondering if it might be possible to add an option to disable spacing? I would prefer to have more information visible and just use the colours to distinguish entries. Thanks for your time.

-h still lists deprecated options

I was going to report that while pacget -s vcvrack works as expected, pacget -s --noedit --noconfirm vcvrack returns several thousand results, and pacget -s --noconfirm --noedit vcvrack returns the right results but gives a "pacman: unrecognized option '--noedit" message.

But then I noticed on the README that a plain -s is now deprecated.

Could it be possible to reword the -h information to reflect that?

When searching, display numbers in descending order

Something I quite like about yay is that when you search it displays the normal repo packages after the aur packages (and pacget already does that).

In my opinion this could be improved even more by displaying the indices in descending order, making the last shown package be 1, or maybe 0 (which is what yay also does).

What are your thoughts on this?

Unofficial user repositories not processed in search results

Also, further up after repo-ck/, there was one more properly done community/, then the aur/ results. Would it be possible for unofficial repos to come after aur/?

--noconfirm isn't passed to pacaur