Yam

Yet another AUR helper but without the pacman wrapping.

This program is build on the idea that a source package manager and a binary package manager are two different things and operations that apply to one inherently do not apply to the other.

I need something incredibly simple to do AUR package management and this is the result.

Goals

• Provide easy access and installation of packages from the AUR
• Minimal user interaction. Execptions:
  • Use of sudo
  • Edit PKGBUILD?
• Use of sudo for root actions. Do as little as root as is humanly possible.
• Be stateless
• Make efficient use of network
• Look nice! (and be consistent with pacman’s look ‘n feel)

Non-Goals

• Wrap Pacman. All actions will only apply to the AUR

Notes

In order to more efficiently use bandwidth and disk space, yam downloads package sources into $XDG_CACHE_HOME (or “$HOME/.cache”), but does builds in /tmp, to save space.

Configuration

A configuration can be found in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/yam.toml or $HOME/.config/yam.toml. If your XDG variable is set, the location in HOME will not be used. Paths cannot include environment variables. Standard Configuration:

# This configuration is redundant because it specifies default values
# This is the directory where makepkg will download and save sources
SrcDir = "/home/user/.cache/yam"
# This is where actual builds will take place
BuildDir = "/home/user/.cache/yam"