I'm curious as to what tweaks were made to the pacman update command so that the text output includes info on AUR and orphaned packages. I'd not seen this before until I updated my Garuda VMs. Is it an alias or an add-on package?
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They are pacman hooks
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Nice!
Thank you.
I'm pretty basic in using Arch-based distros, so this is fascinating to me.
The answer here led me to:
because I was wondering where "Operation", "update/install/remove" and all the other terms in the .hook files were defined.
I learnt something new today.
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Yes, you can do all sorts of neat things with hooks. I wrote an overly complicated hook that checked if timeshift had created a backup within a predetermined time (if not) it triggered a backup. It also gave the option of user interaction via pressing enter on the keyboard to cancel the backup once started.
It worked very well for me, but Garuda uses a package from the AUR to initiate a timeshift backup prior to updating.
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