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Mnemonics for Yay and Pacman commands (lemmy.today)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/3418985

I recently got into Arch Linux via EndeavourOS. I'm trying to find a way to remember all the Pacman and Yay commands, but I'm not able to find a good approach to remembering most of the commands.

Does anybody have any mnemonics to help with this? For example, how did you remember that Yay -Yc was the command to remove all unneeded dependencies?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

According to the manpage --Yay --clean is the thought behind it, its a Yay specific shortcut for pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt) Remove recursive what the Query quiet (short names) on the database lists as unrequired t

Now -Yc does not sound that bad.

It is still good to learn the verbose commands for pacman/paru/yay from the manpages, once you are familiar with them its easy to build more advanced commands for special use-cases.