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The X Binary Package System (XBPS)

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`xbps-alternatives` currently just exits with `EXIT_FAILURE` if the group or the package is not found. It would be useful to also print a message about either one being wrong so...

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good first issue

This error is already ignored by most callers and where it wasn't it masked the real error of packages simply not being found without repositories. Fixes #454.

Right now, `xbps-query` has different default output formats (or even only one output format) for some commands. Multiple columns: ``` [root@rootfs /]# xbps-query -l ii acl-2.3.1_1 Access Control List filesystem...

enhancement

It would be nice to be able to ask `xbps-query` to only list packages in a certain state, like "is a dep" (the invert of `-m`) or "is half-removed". For...

enhancement

Currently xbps uses errnos as exit status, the actual error numbers are not actually defined by a standard so it would be good to switch those out for pre defined...

On Void Linux x86_64 (GLibc), xbps-0.59.1_2, today I hit this assertion when trying to uninstall some packages which are no longer in the repo. Captured output of what I did:...

Not much more to add to the title. I see it as being enabled by a flag, like `-p` or `--pager`.

enhancement

When running `xbps-install -S -r /path/does/not/exist ` (and perhaps similar commands) an error message would be nice, saying that the path does not exist.