pacpend

pacman -Qu output, but more customizable. Inspired by VerbosePkgLists, yaourt -Qu, and pacaur -Qu.

Can sort, group, highlights explicitly installed packages, query AUR database...

Uses checkupdates safe temporary database by default.

See pacpend -h to see all the options.

Usage

Usage with checkupdates for safe update checking. (so better used in an alias or script.)

Check updates:
```
$> checkupdates > /dev/null && pacpend
```
Check and download only updates as user:
- Setup once as root to give "download rights" (should be mostly safe for a personal computer: pacman checksums/verfies packages before install)
```
$> sudo chmod a+w /var/cache/pacman/pkg
```
- Now, as a user you can safely check and download updates:
```
$> checkupdates > /dev/null; pacpend; \
   fakeroot -- pacman --noconfirm -Suwb "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/checkup-db-${USER}/"
```
Globally change pacpend default in your .bashrc/.zshrc/...:
```
export PACPEND='-g explicit -s name,vdiff'
```

pacpend -g none -s name,vdiff
no groups, sort by version difference/increment:
pacpend -g explicit -s name,sizediff
group by explicitly installed or not, sort by installed size difference/increment: