eatsu / pac-wrapper

A pacman wrapper that provides intuitive syntax similar to dnf, apt, zypper, etc.

Pac

Pac is a pacman wrapper that provides intuitive syntax similar to dnf, apt, zypper, etc.

With pac you don't need to memorize the non-intuitive options like -Rs, -Si, -Ss; you can just type remove, info, search, respectively.

Pac also supports Tab completion for Bash and Zsh.

Note: Pac itself is not an AUR helper, though it can wrap an AUR helper that supports pacman's options. See Configuration.

Installation

The pac-wrapper package is available in AUR.

To install from source, run make install.

Examples

Command	Description
pac	Upgrade installed packages.
pac in foo pac install foo	Install package foo and its dependencies.
pac rm foo pac remove foo	Remove package foo and its dependencies.
pac if foo pac info foo	Show information about package or group foo.
pac se foo pac search foo	Search package names and descriptions with keyword foo.
pac mark -d foo pac mark --asdeps foo	Mark package foo as dependencies.
pac arm pac autoremove	Remove dependencies that are no longer required by any installed package.
pac ls -ef pac list --explicit --foreign	List explicitly installed foreign packages (e.g. AUR packages).

Run pac --help for more information.

Configuration

By default, pac wraps pacman. To wrap another pacman-compatible program, set the environment variable PAC_PACMAN.

For example, to wrap paru instead of pacman, add

export PAC_PACMAN='paru'

to your ~/.bash_profile (or $ZDOTDIR/.zshenv for Zsh) and reload your shell.

License

MIT

pac-wrapper's Issues

Support grouping of short options

pac ls -e -f should be able to be written as pac ls -ef, for example.

Improve `pac info <group>` output

It would be nice if we could check whether the group's packages were installed or not, like:

$ pac info kde-system
kde-system dolphin [installed]
kde-system kcron
kde-system khelpcenter
kde-system ksystemlog [installed]
kde-system partitionmanager [installed]

Additional commands/options that may be useful

Commands

• check -- check that package files exist (pacman -Qk)
• checkdb -- check the database validity (pacman -Dk)
• filesearch [-x|--regex] -- search package files (pacman -F)
• repolist -- view a list of packages in a repo (pacman -Sl)
• changelog -- view the changelog of a package (pacman -Qc)
  • This may be almost useless because in reality most packages don't provide changelog, afaik.
• download -- download packages (pacman -Sw)
  • Is it really useful to just download packages?

Options

• list {-t|--unrequired} -- list packages not required by any package
• list {-u|--upgrades} -- list outdated packages
• {-q|--quiet} -- show less information -- for
  • install
  • remove
  • autoremove
  • search
  • files
  • ...

Support `-U`

The question is whether it can be supported with install or requires a new command.

Color valid subcommands in Zsh

like git does.