yay/README.md

yay

Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go

Packages

There's a point in everyone's life when you feel the need to write an AUR helper because there are only about 20 of them. So say hi to 20+1.

Yay was created with a few objectives in mind and based on the design of yaourt and apacman:

• Have almost no dependencies.
• Provide an interface for pacman.
• Have yaourt like search.
• Minimize user input
• Know when git packages are due for an upgrade.

Features

• AUR Tab completion
• Download PKGBUILD from ABS or AUR
• Ask all questions first and then start building
• Search narrowing (yay linux header will first search linux and then narrow on header)
• No sourcing of PKGBUILD is done
• The binary has no dependencies that pacman doesn't already have.
• Sources build dependencies
• Removes make dependencies at the end of build process

Frequently Asked Questions

• Yay does not display colored output. How do I fix it?
  Make sure you have the Color option in your /etc/pacman.conf #123

Example of Custom Operations

• yay <Search Term> presents package selection menu
• yay -Ps prints system statistics
• yay -Pu prints update list
• yay -Yc cleans unneeded dependencies
• yay -G downloads PKGBUILD from ABS or AUR
• yay -Y --gendb generates development package DB used for devel updates.
• yay -Syu --devel --timeupdate Normal update but also check for development package updates and uses PKGBUILD modification time and not version to determine update