Add pacman extension options (-r, -a) about pikaur HOT 13 CLOSED

Hi @actionless, I test it and works perfectly with --aur and --repo but not with contraction -a and -r, for example, it is very useful for use in combination with -Ssr or -Ssa

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i'm reopening this in order to add -a flag for --aur since it seems to be quite popular among users migrating over from yaourt/pacaur

but i still don't like to add -r flag for --repo to not override pacman

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Note that --root and -r will be soon deprecated (replaced by --sysroot), and -r will not be used by pacman anymore.

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should it be applied only for -Ss, -Su/-Syu, -Qu, -Qs or also for some other options?

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pacaur implemented it for search, build, install, upgrade and clean, apart from the ones you mention, I think only one is missing: -Sc

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right, haven't considered it because it's not implemented in pikaur now

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begin pacman -Sh ; pacman -Qh ; end | grep -e " -[ra]"

  -r, --root <path>    set an alternate installation root
  -r, --root <path>    set an alternate installation root

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also i am not sure it makes sense to apply it to -Qs since i don't a reliable way to determine from where the package was installed

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I think only one is missing: -Sc

No, pacaur implements it for -Sc too. Pacaur overrides the short -r flag of pacman, but still allows the original --root long option.

@actionless Yes, you shouldn't try to find the origin of that package anyway. These --aur and --repo options make sense when you want to restrict the operation to a specific source, but -Qs has only one source and that is the local database.

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yeah, -Qs is only for local database, isn't necessary.

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i don't like the idea of overriding pacman's -r

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just noticed what i forgot to implement it for -Sc/-Scc, fixed

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thanks for info! for now on i'll add only -a and so will add -r as soon as pacman will deprecate it

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