pakku

Pakku is a pacman wrapper with additional features, such as AUR support.

Description

There are dozens of AUR helpers, but all of them have a fatal flaw: I didn't write them! So I made another useless AUR helper. Say hello to stillborn AUR helper written in stillborn programming language!

Basically, pakku supports the following features:

Installing packages from AUR
Viewing files and changes between builds
Building packages from official repositories
Removing make dependencies after building
Searching and querying AUR packages
Reading comments for AUR packages
PKGBUILD retrieving
Pacman integration

In other words, it does the same things any AUR helper capable of.

The following principles were the basis of the program:

Pacman-like user interface
Pacman options support (--asdeps, --needed, etc)
Pacman configuration support (output settings, ignored packages, etc)
Download, ask all questions, and only after that start building
No PKGBUILD sourcing

Examples

Build packages from sources: pakku -S --build linux linux-headers
Query all "dependency islands": pakku -Qdttt