[Feature] Integration of pacman-offline

[rkunschke]

Pacman offline is using systemd-offline-updates to perform automatic updates on arch. It downloads (prepaires) updates while the system is running and installs them at shutdown process.

It would be nice to have some integration to the arch-update checker since pacman-offline does not provide any feedback to the user while preparing an offline update.

Basic features:

• provide a info about the number of prepaired updates via pacman-offline
• mark the prepaired updates in the package list

Advanced features:

• trigger prepairing updates
• -> trigger the pacman-offline prepaire service everytime arch-update-checker is looking for updates
• track progress of prepairing updates
• warn if also AUR packages need updates since they are not included in pacman-offline

[dhruv8sh]

Had exams, my bad for replying late. This sounds like an amazing feature to have. Here are a few issues that pop into mind:

• It could become difficult to recognize latest packages amongst the newly-downloaded ones inside the cache.
• If the above does not happen there would be no indication of which packages have been downloaded.

Anyways, since I am very inexperienced with systemd hooks, I will open an issue the pacman-offline repo to ask for help from the owner.