raycekar / ppac

Partial Pacman package updater/installer. For quickly getting a package you need without an entire system update.

ppac (Partial Pacman)

Partial Pacman package updater/installer.

Overview (In Development):

ppac will be used for updating and/or installing new packages and it's dependencies without having to update every package. The idea is the tool will scrape the output of a package helper (pacman/yay/paru) to determine which packages need to be updated for a given package (also updating installed optional dependencies). It is stated in many places to update everything every time, but when only wanting to install a single package shouldn't result in a broken system nor having to install a gb or more. So in short, use at your own risk :)

AUR Installation

Using your package helper of choice, for example: yay -S ppac-git. I suggest setting up the config file if you do use a package helper.

Manual Installation:

You will need gcc for compiling.

1. git clone https://github.com/raycekar/ppac.git
2. cd ppac
3. gcc -g *.c -o ppac
4. you can now either leave and use it in this location or move it to /usr/bin directory

Usage

ppac <package name>

Configuration

ppac will default to using pacman, but you could change it to yay/paru by creating a config file ~/.config/ppac/ppac.conf and paste the line "PKGHELPER=yay".

ppac's Issues

Missing dependencies in potential unique case

Currently, if a package is not installed, the tool will not transverse its dependencies. Thus, if the non-installed package has dependencies that are installed but out of date, they could be potentially missed.

this may only happen to say, if a package that is installed updates its dependency list.