There are a number of things happening here. - Extra support for yaourt has been removed - Docs have been updated to explicitly call out that AUR helpers are not officially supported - aurutils has been suggested to make common operations easier - A utility function called aurget (similar to aurfetch from aurutils) has been added to make cloning AUR repos easier. Fixes #1531
Pacman
Provides aliases and functions for the Pacman package manager and frontends.
Settings
It is possible to use a Pacman frontend with the pacman aliases provided by this package as long as that frontend supports the same command line options (The AUR Helpers page has a good comparison which lists if the command line options are pacman compatible).
Please note that installing packages with an AUR Helper is not officially supported by Archlinux. It is currently recommended to manually build AUR packages using the provided instructions. The aurtools project has a set of small utilities to make this easier.
To enable a Pacman frontend, add the following line to zpreztorc, substituting
pacman_frontend with the name of the frontent:
zstyle ':prezto:module:pacman' frontend 'pacman_frontend'
Aliases
Pacman
pacis short forpacman.paciinstalls packages from repositories.pacIinstalls packages from files.pacxremoves packages and unneeded dependencies.pacXremoves packages, their configuration, and unneeded dependencies.pacqdisplays information about a package from the repositories.pacQdisplays information about a package from the local database.pacssearches for packages in the repositories.pacSsearches for packages in the local database.pacusynchronizes the local package and Arch Build System (requiresabs) databases against the repositories.pacUsynchronizes the local package database against the repositories then upgrades outdated packages.pacman-list-orphanslists orphan packages.pacman-remove-orphansremoves orphan packages.
Frontends
Functions
aurgetclone an aur packagepacman-list-explicitlists explicitly installed pacman packages.pacman-list-disownedlists pacman disowned files.
Authors
The authors of this module should be contacted via the issue tracker.