From bash to zsh and everywhere in between, show me yours and I’ll show you mines. Inspire others or get some feedback.
Simply copy & paste the output of alias in your terminal or add some comments to explain things for others.
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Ah, yay is an AUR helper, though I personally see it as a pacman
helper as well. Link here. Some of the flags and options that can be used for pacman
can be used for yay
, thus, some of the flags in the aliases I use are actually for pacman
. Anyways, on to the breakdown.
alias yy='yay -Y --needed --norebuild --nocleanafter --nodiffmenu --noredownload --nocleanmenu --removemake --sudoloop'
This one is what I use to look up for packages. The result of runnning yy «search term»
would be a list of packages matching the search term and prompting the user on which package(s) to install.
flag | description |
---|---|
-Y |
performs yay-specific operations. |
--needed |
(pacman) do not reinstall up to date packages |
--norebuild |
skips package build if in cache and up to date |
--nocleanafter |
do not remove package sources after successful build |
--noredownlod |
skip pkgbuild download if in cache and up to date |
--nodiffmenu |
don’t show diffs for build files |
--nocleanmenu |
don’t clean build PKGBUILDS |
--removemake |
remove makedepends after install |
--sudoloop |
loop sudo calls in the background to avoid timeout |
alias ya='yay -S --needed --norebuild --nocleanafter --nodiffmenu --noredownload --nocleanmenu --removemake --sudoloop'
This one is what I use for installing packages. Useful if I already know what package I would be installing.
flag | description |
---|---|
-S |
(pacman, extended by Yay to cover AUR as well) Synchronize packages. Packages are installed directly from the remote repositories, including all dependencies required to run the packages. |
alias yu='yay -R --recursive --nosave'
This one is what I use when uninstalling packages. I usually check the package name with something like yay -Qi «package-name-guess»
beforehand.
flag | description |
---|---|
-R |
(pacman, extended by Yay to also remove cached data about devel packages) Remove package(s) from the system. |
--recursive |
(pacman) Remove each target specified including all of their dependencies, provided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B) they were not explicitly installed by the user. This operation is recurisve and analogous to a backwards --sync operation. |
--nosave |
(pacman) Instructs pacman to ignore file backup designations. (This avoids the removed files being renamed with a .pacsave extension.) |
I actually don’t know much about both yay
and pacman
myself, since the aliases were just passed onto me by the same friend who helped me (re-)install my system (long story) and set-up the aliases. Having looked all these up, however, I might make a few changes (like changing the --nocleanafter
and --nocleanmenu
options to their clean ones`).