Excluding some packages on the fly

[xfzv]

paru and yay allow to exclude packages on the fly during the system update:

• paru

• yay

This is convenient if the user wants to postpone some packages updates but still wants to update the others. This is faster and more convenient than:

1. Cancelling the system update
2. Adding package(s) to ~/.config/aura/config.toml
3. Running the system update again
4. Remove the excluded packages from ~/.config/aura/config.toml

Considering partial upgrades aren't supported by Arch, I guess this option could be disabled by default.

[fosskers]

One thing to point out is that the --ignore flag is available. That at least would allow you to avoid the cycle of editing your config file.

[RubenKelevra]

@fosskers yeah, but this gets annoying pretty quickly. Say there's a Haskell update again, and I like to ignore like 50 packages at once.

[fosskers]

The secret to that, of course, is to avoid Haskell packages at all costs on Arch Linux :rofl: