pacrs

pacrs - pacman and paru wrapper (yes, wrapper above wrapper), with frendly CLI inspired by zypper and apt.

paru is optional dependencie needed for AUR support.

Some features and peculiarities:

• Semi-automatic index update. It's good because pacman -Sy command ran without further update is potentially fearing (see Arch Wiki for more info).
• If you try to install package which updated in the repo pacrs inform you what you needed to update system before.
• apt autoremove command which works like apt autoremove or paru -c.
• pacrs ps command which works like zypper ps.
• pacman -Si and pacman -Qi was merged into pacrs info command.
• pacman -F and pacman -Ql was merged into pacrs files command.
• pacrs list-updates is implementation of checkupdates script from pacmancontrib package. It works like if you update index and run pacman -Qu but pacrs bot affects your local index for that.
• pacrs packages supports multiple filters which allows you to find, for example AUR packages installed as dependencie - pacrs packages --aur --deps.

for more info see pacrs help command output.

Pros and cons in relation to pacman and paru

• pacrs has more intuitive and consistent interface.
• pacrs conducts some checks and removes part of handmade.
  • This makes him more user-friendly.
  • This makes him slower in some cases.
• pacrs does not set a goal to be a complete replacement for pacman and paru and not provide some advanced features which they does. For cases when you need this features you can use pacman or paru directly (or open the issue with feature request).

Installation

With paru

paru -S pacrs

From AUR

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pacrs.git
cd pacrs
makepkg -si

From source

For build from source you need rust toolchain. For installation you need just.

git clone git@github.com:5121f/pacrs.git
cd pacrs
cargo build --release
just install

for uninstall use just uninstall.

License

This program is free software. It is licensed under the GNU GPL version 3. That means you are free to use this program for any purpose; free to study and modify this program to suit your needs; and free to share this program or your modifications with anyone. If you share this program or your modifications you must grant the recipients the same freedoms. To be more specific: you must share the source code under the same license. For details see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html