https://github.com/bekaboo/pacman-install-comments
Pacman hook for adding comments to explicitly installed packages.
https://github.com/bekaboo/pacman-install-comments
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Pacman hook for adding comments to explicitly installed packages.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bekaboo/pacman-install-comments
- Owner: Bekaboo
- Created: 2022-09-05T16:45:09.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-12-20T02:12:58.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-06T18:22:15.956Z (6 months ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 4.88 KB
- Stars: 7
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 1
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Pacman Hook for Adding Comments to Explicitly Installed Packages
This is a post transaction hook for adding comments to explicitly installed packages through Arch Linux's package manager `pacman`.
The hook is triggered every time there's an installation or uninstallation and invokes a script to add or remove packages from a file to keep it up to date. In addition, if you have `neovim`/`vim`/`vi` installed, it will also open the list file so that you can add comments after each package; in addition you can press "n" to navigate to the next installed package if you have multiple installed in one time.
A list file of explicitly installed packages should look like this:
```
pkg_a # comments
pkg_b # ok if you have no comment
pkg_c
pkg_d # comments
```
There must be no space before the package name, comments should be placed after the package name with one or more spaces/tabs.
**Notice:** You should not have more than one entry for the same package, else all entries of that package will be deleted!
## Installation
```bash
sudo ./install.sh
```
You may want to add `HookDir = /etc/pacman.d/hooks` to your pacman config file, though it is enabled by default.
## Uninstallation
```bash
sudo ./uninstall.sh
```