still we have tons of packages that do not follow category. Searching by category is ineffective. I think the best way to know about package is to let users write "aur packages reviews" for the packages they love. On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@barrera.io> wrote:
On 2014-09-05 02:59, carstene1ns wrote:
[...]if they can be parsed by pacman somehow, they would add some use. Otherwise, I'm ok with deleting them.
Am 05.09.2014 um 00:51 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera: pacman has no AUR support, this was a decision. So the only way to allow it to see such data would be to add it to the PKGBUILD or other metadata (which does not make sense, as the official repositories have no categories either).
Adding it to the PKGBUILD was what I originally mentioned.
Anyways, there are quite a few AUR helpers available, so you could use them with a bit of shell scripting or use the RPC interface directly.
To display categories for your installed AUR packages: $ cower --info --format="%c/%n" $(pacman -Qqem) | sort
Non-AUR packages don't have this metadata, so that seach would not include a lot of installed packages. (which I why I proposed the above).
You may add a '| grep games' to filter for specific category or tell cower to sort by install date or something instead of using 'sort' of course.
best regards, carstene1ns
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