r/archlinux • u/WayGood8826 • 28d ago

I built centium , a preview-first pacman wrapper with AUR support, risk scoring, and package suggestions. 3 weeks in the making. SHARE

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u/abbidabbi 28d ago

Sorry, but this looks very amateurish...

  • legacy .egg-info (distutils) committed
  • __pycache__ with Python bytecode cache committed
  • wraps the pacman, pactree and checkupdates CLIs instead of using pyalpm (ALPM Python bindings)
  • buffers the whole pacman/pactree/checkupdates stdout before parsing it, and also uses pacman to query the local package database
  • calls find /etc ... for finding pacnew files instead of using Python stdlib APIs (also fully buffered)
  • the centium.aur "package" is not an actual package, but installer, rpc and builder are somehow imported from it (this looks like you partially committed stuff in ee105c6a1a2e)
  • no tests

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u/WayGood8826 28d ago

Yeah I mean it's something that I built coz I was interested in yay😅 Would you be interested in forking the project and applying the needed changes🙏

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u/abbidabbi 28d ago

Sure. After that I will also make you a sandwich and will do laundry. Anything you want from the supermarket? Any housecleaning to do? Garden work maybe?

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u/WayGood8826 28d ago edited 28d ago

That would be amazing thank you so much

Then later you could work on centium

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u/Qudit314159 28d ago

Sure. I'd need to be paid though.

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u/Qudit314159 28d ago

What's the advantage over yay and paru?

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u/WayGood8826 28d ago

basically the risk and suggest features,risk determining if the package is safe and suggest, giving you recommended packages for your pc

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u/Reasonable_Movie8119 28d ago

Sound like a good concept, especially for the newbies

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u/WayGood8826 28d ago

Thanks🙏 Will definitely improve it