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. (TODO)

Features

• AUR Tab completion
• 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

Custom Operations

• yay <Search Term> presents package selection menu
• yay -Qstats delivers system statistics
• yay -Cd cleans unneeded dependencies
• yay -G downloads PKGBuild from ABS or AUR

Changelog

2.165

• Upgrade list now allows skipping upgrade install.

2.159

• Qstats now warns about packages not available in AUR.

2.152

• Fetching backend changed to Mikkel Oscar's Aur
• Added support for development packages from github.
• Pacman backend rewritten and simplified
• Added config framework.

1.115

• Added AUR completions (updates on first completion every 48h)

1.101

• Search speed and quality improved #3

1.100

• Added manpage
• Improved search #3
• Added -G to get pkgbuild from the AUR or ABS. #6
• Fixed #8
• Completed and decluttered zsh completions
• If $EDITOR or $VISUAL is not set yay will prompt you for an editor #7

1.91

• --downtop has been replaced with --bottomup (as is logical)
• yay -Ssq and yay -Sqs now displays AUR packages with less information
• Repository search now uses the same criteria as pacman

1.85

• yay now does -Si for AUR packages
• Fixed package install bugs

1.83

• Added new dependency resolver for future features
• Sort package statistics

1.80

• yay now warns when installing orphan packages
• Added orphan status to number menu
• Qstats now checks if system has orphan packages installed

1.78

• Added foreign package statistics to Qstats
• Group installing is now possible
• Better handling of package dependency installing

1.76

• Fixed critical bug that prevented AUR dependencies from being installed.

1.70

• Stable for everyday use
• Bottom up package display
• Number menu like yaourt/apacman
• System package statistics