pacrs

pacrs - pacman and paru wrapper (yes, wrapper on top of another wrapper), with friendly CLI inspired by zypper and apt.

paru is optional dependency needed for AUR support.

Some features and peculiarities:

• Semi-automatic index update. It's good because running pacman -Sy without immediately upgrading is potentially dangerous (see Arch Wiki for more info).
• If you try to install a package that has been updated in the repository, pacrs will inform you that you need to update your system first.
• pacrs autoremove works like pacman -Rs or apt autoremove. If no package is specified, it behaves like paru -c.
• pacrs ps command which works like zypper ps.
• pacman -Si and pacman -Qi were merged into pacrs info command.
• pacman -F and pacman -Ql were merged into pacrs files command.
• pacrs list-updates is implementation of checkupdates script from pacmancontrib package. It works as if you updated the index and ran pacman -Qu, but pacrs does not affect your local index.
• pacrs packages supports multiple filters, which allow you to find, for example, AUR packages installed as dependencies - 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 removes some manual work.
  • This makes it more user-friendly.
  • This makes it slower in some cases.
• pacrs does not set a goal to be a complete replacement for pacman and paru and does not provide some advanced features they have. For cases where you need these 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

To 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