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 <h...@barrera.io> wrote: > On 2014-09-05 02:59, carstene1ns wrote: >> Am 05.09.2014 um 00:51 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera: >> > [...]if they can be parsed by pacman somehow, they would add some use. >> > Otherwise, I'm ok >> > with deleting them. >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Hugo Osvaldo Barrera > A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right. > Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?