[arch-general] replacement for clyde

[Buce]

2011/8/19 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've used yaourt for a couple of years now.
> > It has always worked for me for the most part, and having a common
> > command for everything is very convenient for me. alias y=yaourt and
> > you have one of the simplest ways to do a complete update of your
> > system, y -Syua
> >
>
> I understand this may seems convenient to some. For me it is just useless
> and just abstract things from the user. If I want to run pacman -Rs foo,
> why
> would I be motivated to do yaourt -Rs foo instead if yaourt only call
> pacman
> -Rs foo ?
>
I don't like any overlap of functionality between pacman and my AUR helper,
too, and I use cower for that purpose. You still have to do makepkg and
pacman -U (or makepkg, repo-add and pacman -Syu) manually, but that's my
preference anyhow, and it's easily scripted.