kingcons
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13 years ago This will be fixed in paktahn 0.9.7. And I'll talk to Trevis and Leslie about their thoughts on the alternate format for AUR progress. I'm certainly amenable to it. Thanks again for this report. Sorry I've been so busy.
As per the suggestion on the ArchLinux thread for this project, I am creating two issues for paktahn, one of which is this one.
One of the most useful things about AUR helpers is the ability to get information on AUR packages much the same as pacman can for binary packages. pacman -Si is one of those ways to get information.
Other AUR helpers, such as pacaur or packer, offer -Si support for AUR packages. For example, packer -Si gmusicbrowser-git shows details on that package which is only found in the AUR, where pak -Si only returns a list of possible flags to run (as it does not support -Si currently).
Also, and I will form a separate issue if you guys will consider it, the AUR output when doing pak -Syu --aur is not consistent with the new yaourt, pacman, or any other AUR helper currently: paktahn prints each installed AUR package out one-by-one and tells you its up to date, while other AUR helpers do it similar to pacman using an increasing sequence of ###### to designate checking progress. This isnt a big deal when using less than 10 AUR packages (such as myself), but for those using upwards of 50 AUR packages, this takes a long time and floods the terminal in a way not consistent with any current interface (the OLD yaourt did this- yaourt-git approaches things more like packer). Just an idea/feature-request :)