On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>wrote:
pacsearch "Add[s] color and install information to a pacman -Ss search". This contrib script has last been updated for pacman 3.2 if I recall correctly. Since pacman now comes with color support, I feel like this script has become obsolete. Beside being redundant, it is slower and colors are somewhat less readable (as subjective as it may be).
Did it require regular updates past 3.2 to still work? I've still been using it without problems. The biggest reason I use it is to search -Ss and -Qs output at the same time, not for color. As far as I know this still doesn't happen with any combination of pacman flags. Also, citation required for "slower" claim. This is likely due to the aforementioned two operations instead of the single one you are comparing against. -Dan