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911Gmta

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About something that appears in the "yay" man page ... ???

I am just looking for clarification about something that's written in the "yay" man page.

The following text appears in that man page:

EXTENDED PACMAN OPERATIONS
     -S, -Si, -Sl, -Ss, -Su, -Sc, -Qu
            These operations are extended to support both AUR and repo packages.

Does this mean that when I run "pacman -Qu", it will support both AUR and repo packages?

Or does this mean that when I run "yay -Qu", it will also support pacman-managed packages?

Thank you in advance for clarification about this.

Last edited by 911Gmta (Yesterday 17:57:32)

5hridhyan

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Re: About something that appears in the "yay" man page ... ???

Does this mean that when I run "pacman -Qu", it will also support AUR and repo packages?

No.

to my understanding, yay has taken standard pacman operations (like -Qu) and extended their functionality, so the result you'd expect is running yay -Qu will list outdated packages from both the official repositories and the AUR

Edit:
striked out, as it's a fact.

Last edited by 5hridhyan (Yesterday 18:03:29)

911Gmta

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Re: About something that appears in the "yay" man page ... ???

Does this mean that when I run "pacman -Qu", it will also support AUR and repo packages?

No.

to my understanding, yay has taken standard pacman operations (like -Qu) and extended their functionality, so the result you'd expect is running yay -Qu will list outdated packages from both the official repositories and the AUR

Thank you very much for this clarification!

WorMzy

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Re: About something that appears in the "yay" man page ... ???

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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