recent pkg search

dtw · 2005-03-07 05:45:15

i'm sure this has been suggested before but could we get pacman - to offer us a list of new pkgs nice we last updated?

It personally am always on the hunt for new pkgs and with some many repos: official, TUR and UOR - it would be great to see what people are adding to their repos rather than just updating them.

In the hunt for new pkgs this would be great - and surely it can't be hard to achieve

i could set up a script that does

for repo in {listofallrepos} ; do
pacman -Sl >$repolist
done
pacman -Syu
for repo in {listofallrepos} ; do
pacman -Sl >new$repolist
done

for repo in {listofallrepos} ; do
diff $repolist new$repolist
done

(that is off my head) but if it is that easy surely pacman can do it!

cmp · 2005-03-07 12:48:39

i think pacman should support SQL

phrakture · 2005-03-07 16:18:16

cmp wrote:

i think pacman should support SQL

and should be scriptable in Basic

cactus · 2005-03-07 21:29:17

I am for leaving pacman simple. If you can write a script to do it externally....then...why not just do that?
Keep pacman simple....
simple simple simple..

ganlu · 2005-03-08 04:53:03

When pacman has to deal with thousands of hundruds of packages(that's the trend I believe), that will be a good thing to consider a database backend, and then will easily gain many new features to end user. Have to find a good balance point in features and keeping it simple.
Keeping it as possible as simple is not always right, neither does adding new features

dtw · 2005-03-08 09:06:43

i don't think this would complicate the functionality at all - i 'm sure within the mechanics of pacman it covers this already - i'd just like to see a switch so we can see it

phrakture · 2005-03-08 16:51:29

ganlu wrote:

Keeping it as possible as simple is not always right, neither does adding new features

You seem to have missed the arch philosophy... the entire distro is based around simplicity... so saying simplicity isn't always right kinda makes me wonder why you're using arch.

I for one think that is a feature is scriptable in under 10 lines then it shouldn't be added to anything.

Hell, hotplug is almost all scripts and that's created by people who know much more than any of us here...

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#1 2005-03-07 05:45:15

recent pkg search

#2 2005-03-07 12:48:39

Re: recent pkg search

#3 2005-03-07 16:18:16

Re: recent pkg search

#4 2005-03-07 21:29:17

Re: recent pkg search

#5 2005-03-08 04:53:03

Re: recent pkg search

#6 2005-03-08 09:06:43

Re: recent pkg search

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