pakku

Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support. Stable release is available in AUR.

Description

There are dozens of AUR helpers, but all of them have a fatal flaw: I didn't write them! So I made another useless AUR helper. Say hello to stillborn AUR helper written in stillborn programming language!

Basically, pakku supports the following features:

• Installing packages from AUR
• Viewing files and changes between builds
• Building packages from official repositories
• Removing make dependencies after building
• Searching and querying AUR packages
• Reading comments for AUR packages
• PKGBUILD retrieving
• Pacman integration

In other words, it does the same things any AUR helper capable of.

The following principles were the basis of the program:

• Pacman-like user interface
• Pacman options support (--asdeps, --needed, etc)
• Pacman configuration support (output settings, ignored packages, etc)
• Download, ask all questions, and only after that start building
• No PKGBUILD sourcing

Examples

• Build packages from sources: pakku -S --build linux linux-headers
• Query all "dependency islands": pakku -Qdttt