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emacs-helm / helm-system-packages

A Helm interface to the package manager of your operating system
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Use trizen/yaourt etc in arch #22

Open Redcroft opened 6 years ago

Redcroft commented 6 years ago

Hi, How do i go about using trizen? It uses the same structure/commands as pacman but allows for aur support. (it doesnt require running as root however)

Thanks

Ambrevar commented 6 years ago

The main issue with the AUR is to list all packages. Assuming it's possible, we would need some sort of caching. I've already done that for guix (a bit kludgy for now but it will do until someone can think of a better way).

Another note: because the AUR does not have an official helper, we'd need to make the commands customizable.

I'm not using Arch these days, so if you are interested, you can send me a pull request.

You can try extending -pacman.el with an additional source (see -portage.el). Let me know if you need help.