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#1 2009-09-14 10:14:13
- zowki
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Pacman replacements
Currently I'm using 3 pacman clones on my computer:
- pacman-color
- powerpill
- yaourt
Coordinating which one to use can be quite confusing. I use regular pacman-color for package searching and system upgrades, yaourt for installing AUR stuff and powerpill for batch downloading and large packages. I have been brainstorming the perfect pacman clone which would combine the best features from current pacman clones.
- Colored output
- Install AUR packages
- Argument to search AUR, regular repositories or both
- Sudoes automatically when root permissions required (like yaourt)
Any other ideas on what would make the perfect pacman clone?
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#2 2009-09-14 10:22:47
- wonder
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Re: Pacman replacements
pacman will never have a functionality for aur.
we are not supporting unsupported packages. this is the main reason that yaourt or others aur helpers are not in community.
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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#3 2009-09-14 11:16:40
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Re: Pacman replacements
I'm not suggesting that these features be included in pacman but in a frontend like yaourt. I'm just brainstorming ideas to create my own program.
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#4 2009-09-14 11:19:02
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Re: Pacman replacements
They are wrappers, not 'clones'.
Also, yaourt does all that already, or pacman + slurpy.
Development on yaourt is sorta stalled atm so you can contribute to it instead of making a new one.
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#5 2009-09-14 11:21:29
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Re: Pacman replacements
1. Change the PacmanBin option in your ~/.yaourtrc to /usr/bin/powerpill.
2. Change the PacmanBin option in your /etc/powerpill.conf to /usr/bin/pacman-color.
Alias yaourt to your liking.
Voilà.
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#6 2009-09-14 12:10:14
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Re: Pacman replacements
Multithreaded downloads using aria2c (like powerpill) would greatly enhance yaourt.
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#7 2009-09-14 12:16:48
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Re: Pacman replacements
As Runiq points out, you can wrap them together into one command, which seems to be quite common.
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#8 2009-09-14 12:44:47
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Re: Pacman replacements
Followed Runiq's advice and it works great! Looks like I won't have to write a new program, thanks!
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