Yay: Add options to work only on repositories or on the AUR

[Exagone313]

Hi,

I'm coming from pacaur, and I liked the options -r and -a that, respectively, restrict operations to repositories or the AUR. I often upgrade only from the repositories, and having to type aur to filter out AUR upgrades each time is annoying. I'd prefer to type the command yay -Syur instead. I know partial upgrades are not supported on Arch, but AUR packages are not supported anyway.

This also applies to other operations such as searching, and this is handy.

I haven't found similar options in yay, or issues/pull requests asking for this feature.

[Morganamilo]

I always thought doing yay -S aur/packagename as well as typing aur during upgrade, which you say you find annoying, was good enough so I didn't see a point in adding a flag. And if you're just upgrading repo packages you can just use Pacman directly.

Plus -r --root is a Pacman flag, so Tay will never overwrite that so you'd have to write --repo which is just as annoying as typing AUR in my opinion.

-r --root is schedule for removes for removal iirc so maybe then it could be added.

Basically my question is, you want this for convenience right? If you had to enter yay -Syu --repo would it still be as convenient and worth it?

[Exagone313]

if -r is already taken, and another short option isn't wanted, a long option is fine too.

[passcod]

Mostly interested in the inverse for this: being able to tell yay _not_ to target the AUR for something. I know I could just use pacman directly, but then I don't have the yay improvements and otherwise brevity.

[passcod]

Specifically, something like yay -Syun (-n for "not AUR", doesn't conflict afaik).

[Morganamilo]

-n --native and -m --foreign are already used by Pacman so I would like to use these flags if this were to be implemented. -a --aur and -r --repo are kind of the convention now though so I don't know if people would like that.

[ar1a]

+1, i want to update without updating aur