pacman-contrib does not contains any rust code and it's already a mishmash of languages. I don't really want to add another new language to it.
]]>For a long time I've wanted an easy way to inspect pacman package files, mainly config files. And so paccat was born.
You can inspect a file as simple as
paccat pacman -- pacman.conf
You can even do weird things like
paccat --binary git -- git-add.1.gz | man --local-file -
I wrote this in a a few hours and have just released 0.1.0 so beware. I'll probably be adding a couple things here and there.
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