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A powerful Pacman (Package Manager) front end using Qt libs
https://tintaescura.com/projects/octopi
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Alternative AUR helper: trizen #312

Closed Skycoder42 closed 6 years ago

Skycoder42 commented 6 years ago

Yes, there are many requests for aur helpers to be added, but there is a reason I think trizen would be a good addition:

Trizen is an aur helper tool which is very similar to pacaur (Which is not maintained anymore, see #311 ). It has almost the same command syntax as pacaur, thus it would be easy to integrate into octopi as another aur helper. It seems to be rather popular with former pacaur users, too (Got that impression from https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/7k5suz/pacaur_now_unmaintained/).

As far as I understand, the only thing that could prevent this is the missing option to list updated aur packages only (See https://github.com/trizen/trizen/issues/103).

Any thoughts on this?

aarnt commented 6 years ago

"Qua" option should be no problem. Currently Octopi parses only AUR results. Only trouble is trizen has more dependencies. But...

Vincent43 commented 6 years ago

yay has no dependencies: https://github.com/Jguer/yay

Skycoder42 commented 6 years ago

Small update: trizen now does support the -Qua option to only list aur updates (See the previously linked issue, aviabled as of Version 1.43)

mbloms commented 6 years ago

I was just going to suggest this.

polarathene commented 6 years ago

Pikaur is apparently looking promising with active development.

Relevant reddit discussion on r/archlinux here.

michaldybczak commented 6 years ago

Is there any info which AUR helpers are currently supported by octopi? I know that yaourt and pacaur are but what about others? I installed aurman, trizen, pakku and yay and saw that's not an option in octopi. I tried googling what are the supported ones but I found only this topic here. Or maybe yaourt and pacaur are the only ones so far?

Vincent43 commented 6 years ago

Or maybe yaourt and pacaur are the only ones so far?

That's true.

polarathene commented 6 years ago

Does it require much to support another? pacaur is no longer maintained, it has some nice benefits over yaourt, so supporting another helper with the same/similar benefits would be good.

aarnt commented 6 years ago

It'll be added! I just need to have time to code.

aarnt commented 6 years ago

Added Trizen support in upstream.