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Unify the formatting of the --help switch for pacman utils, if it exists.
All of the pacman utils will now output help text using the following
format:
util-name (pacman) v<pacman version>
one line description of util's purpose
Usage: util-name [options]
-b, --bar whatever --bar does
-f, --foo whatever --foo does
-h, --help display this help message
Reported-by: Karol Błażewicz <karol.blazewicz at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>
Here is a brief description of the files included in this directory:
PKGBUILD.vim - a vim/gvim syntax file for PKGBUILDs. Colors known variable
names, highlights common errors such as invalid characters in pkgname or
pkgver, etc.
bacman - regenerate a pacman package based on installed files and the pacman
database entries. Useful for reuse, or possible config file extension.
bash_completion - a bash completion script for pacman, install in
/etc/bash_completion.d/ for use (but rename to something descriptive!).
checkupdates - print a list of pending updates without touching the system
sync databases (for safety on rolling release distributions).
paccache - a flexible package cache cleaning utility that allows greater
control over which packages are removed.
pacdiff - a simple pacnew/pacorig/pacsave updater for /etc/.
paclist - list all packages installed from a given repository. Useful for
seeing which packages you may have installed from the testing repository,
for instance.
paclog-pkglist - lists currently installs packages based pacman's log.
pacscripts - tries to print out the {pre,post}_{install,remove,upgrade}
scripts of a given package.
pacsearch - a colorized search combining both -Ss and -Qs output. Installed
packages are easily identified with a *** and local-only packages are also
listed.
pacsysclean - lists installed packages sorted by size.
rankmirrors - ranks pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed.
updpkgsums - performs an in place update of the checksums in a PKGBUILD.
vimprojects - a project file for the vim project plugin.
zsh_completion - a zsh completion script, install (with a rename) to
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/.