Hi,
Pamac 9.5 is out and guess what, it's the best version ever released
Because it has some new cool features, I must share them with you.
Here the main changes:
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First, a bunch of internal improvements:
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Automatically resolve common errors with which pacman leaves you alone:
- auto solved dependencies conflicts by removing conflict from the transaction
- existing file conflicts resolution by backuping existing files
- bad downloads resolution by removing and redownload them
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When removing no more needed packages (orphans), don't remove packages which is an optional dep of another package:
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Custom search algorithm for better regex support
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Database performance improvement
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Faster AUR client
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Then the GUI was also improved:
- Complete gnome integration
- Add of Appstream and Snap links support
- Improved low screen resolution support
- Fix check conflicts freeze
- Fix download freeze
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To finished, the CLI also had some love:
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Add of shell-style wildcards support to install and remove packages, like:
pamac remove virtualbox*
pamac install libreoffice-{still,fresh}
- Add of
--quiet,-q
option in search, list and clone actions for easy scripting - Add of
--dry-run,-d
option to install, remove and build actions
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Add of shell-style wildcards support to install and remove packages, like: