#+TITLE: System Packages
#+AUTHOR: J. Alexander Branham
#+LANGUAGE: en

#+NAME: pipeline-status
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This is a collection of functions to make handling installed system
packages more convenient through emacs. 

* Installation

  System packages is available on [[https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/system-packages.html][GNU ELPA]]. You can get it by doing
  M-x package-install RET system-packages RET.

  Users of Debian ≥10 and derivatives can install it with the following:
  #+BEGIN_SRC sh
  sudo apt install elpa-system-packages
  #+END_SRC

* Configuration
  
  The package attempts to guess which package manager you use.  If it
  guesses wrong (or you'd like to set it manually), you may modify the
  variable =system-packages-package-manager=.

  We also attempt to guess whether or not to use sudo with appropriate
  commands (like installing and uninstalling packages). Some package
  managers (like homebrew) warn not to use sudo, others (like =apt=)
  need sudo privileges. You may set this manually by configuring
  =system-packages-use-sudo=.

  Other package customization options can be accessed with M-x
  =customize-group RET system-packages RET=.

* Supported package managers
  Currently, =system-packages= knows about the following package managers.
  You can see exactly what commands are associated with =system-packages=
  commands by checking =system-packages-supported-package-managers=.  The
  default package manager that we use is the first one found from this
  list:

  - guix
  - nix
  - brew
  - macports
  - pacman
  - apt
  - aptitude
  - emerge
  - zypper
  - dnf
  - xbps

* Usage

  The package doesn't presume to set keybindings for you, so you may set
  those up yourself or simply call functions with =M-x=. All commands
  start with =system-packages=
* Adding other package managers
It is straightforward to add support for package managers.  First, add
the commands to =system-packages-supported-package-managers= like so:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (add-to-list 'system-packages-supported-package-managers
               '(pacaur .
                        ((default-sudo . nil)
                         (install . "pacaur -S")
                         (search . "pacaur -Ss")
                         (uninstall . "pacaur -Rs")
                         (update . "pacaur -Syu")
                         (clean-cache . "pacaur -Sc")
                         (log . "cat /var/log/pacman.log")
                         (get-info . "pacaur -Qi")
                         (get-info-remote . "pacaur -Si")
                         (list-files-provided-by . "pacaur -Ql")
                         (verify-all-packages . "pacaur -Qkk")
                         (verify-all-dependencies . "pacaur -Dk")
                         (remove-orphaned . "pacaur -Rns $(pacman -Qtdq)")
                         (list-installed-packages . "pacaur -Qe")
                         (list-installed-packages-all . "pacaur -Q")
                         (list-dependencies-of . "pacaur -Qi")
                         (noconfirm . "--noconfirm"))))
#+END_SRC

You may then need to adjust =system-packages-package-manager= and
=system-packages-use-sudo= accordingly:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  (setq system-packages-use-sudo t)
  (setq system-packages-package-manager 'pacaur)
#+END_SRC
* See also
Helm users might like [[https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-system-packages][helm-system-packages]]