2011/8/19 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@xxxxxxxxx> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I've used yaourt for a couple of years now. > > It has always worked for me for the most part, and having a common > > command for everything is very convenient for me. alias y=yaourt and > > you have one of the simplest ways to do a complete update of your > > system, y -Syua > > > > I understand this may seems convenient to some. For me it is just useless > and just abstract things from the user. If I want to run pacman -Rs foo, > why > would I be motivated to do yaourt -Rs foo instead if yaourt only call > pacman > -Rs foo ? > I don't like any overlap of functionality between pacman and my AUR helper, too, and I use cower for that purpose. You still have to do makepkg and pacman -U (or makepkg, repo-add and pacman -Syu) manually, but that's my preference anyhow, and it's easily scripted.
