Some questions / suggestions

[xfzv]

Hi

I've been playing around with aura lately. I have some questions / suggestions.

1. I found by accident that it's possible to use XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aura/aura.conf instead of /etc/aura.conf. The user guide and the README only mention /etc/aura.conf:

aura/README.md

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	Aura looks for a configuration file at `/etc/aura.conf`, but won't break if one
	isn't present. A template config file [can be found here](aura/doc/aura.conf)
	and contains all instructions. If you install Aura via its AUR package, this
	file is added for you.

Plus, the link to the template config file is broken.

2. The downgrade feature (-C) is very handy. However, it only works with local Pacman cache in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. It would be nice if we could also downgrade from archive.archlinux.org like with downgrade. Useful if the Pacman cache is empty or if we want to downgrade to a much older version for some reasons.

3. No packages completions for aura -A? I'm aware of Completions for -A #106 but I'm not sure what is the current status of this. Works fine with paru -S for example.

4. Is there a way to revert search results so that the packages with the most votes appear at the bottom? Basically BottomUp from paru. This workaround... works, but we miss syntax highlighting and it's not very convenient to have to remember to use a pipe every time.

5. aura -L uses less. Is there a way to use another program?

6. Likewise, is there a way to use a different pager for -k? (I haven't tried this flag yet).

7. Can we automatically import PGP keys from validpgpkeys field of PKGBUILD? couldn't find any info in the manual or the user guide on this.

8. Can we display unread Arch Linux news? same, couldn't find any info about this so I guess it's not possible.

The package set snapshots feature (-B) is amazing. 🚀

Thanks for reading!

[fosskers]

Thanks for trying out Aura! Just to quickly confirm, are you using Aura 3 or alpha-stage Aura 4? You can find out via aura -V. Otherwise, here are answers to your questions:

1. With Aura 4, the default config location is XDG_CONFIG_HOME/aura.toml. I have not yet updated the Aura Book to reflect this information, so apologies for the confusion.
2. That's a great suggestion, I will look into it.
3. This will be more possible in Aura 4, since it caches more information locally.
4. That should be trivial to implement, thanks for the suggestion.
5. Aura 4 uses bat by default and less if bat can't be found. I could also make it possible to specify your own in config.
6. Same as the above.
7. Let me look into this - Aura doesn't have any special handling of keys at the moment.
8. If you'd like that implemented, I can look into it.

[xfzv]

Thanks for the details.

Just to quickly confirm, are you using Aura 3 or alpha-stage Aura 4

I'm using 3.2.9. I'll keep an eye on v4, looks promising! 👍