N?? / show marks the upstream candidate with "*" instead of ">" (the
prompt, which read as a command in logs), and every line but the note
gets a two-character gutter: " " for the installed record, "* " for the
candidate, so keys and colons line up. The plain native fallback (zypper,
unmergeable records) and the not-installed candidate use the same gutter.
pacman records (-Qi with -Si or the AUR helper's -Sia) are now compared
the way they are meant:
- values unwrapped (continuation lines joined, runs of blanks as one):
yay wraps Depends On / Optional Deps at 80 columns even without a
terminal unless COLUMNS=0, which the helper now gets for -Qua and -Sia
- Depends On, Provides, Conflicts With, Make/Check Deps and the other
lists as sets of exact tokens in any order (a constraint is a change)
- Optional Deps by package names ("name: description [installed]" in
-Qi, bare names from the AUR)
- a differing value is one line like -Qi, Optional Deps one entry per
line; candidate-only fields sit next to their counterpart (Repository
after Version, AUR URL after URL, Maintainer after Packager, ...)
Verified on recorded claude-desktop records (paru 2.1.0, yay 13.0.1, the
installed 2.9939.4-1 from the AUR's own .SRCINFO); discovery/pacman.md
section 15.2.
N? and `info PKG` now print three lines, none indented:
PKG: <description>
reason: explicitly installed | installed as a dependency | unknown | not installed
required by: <installed dependents, comma separated> | nothing
The reason comes from a new <be>_reason backend function: apt-mark
showauto / showmanual (dpkg decides for a package in neither list), the
Install Reason of pacman -Qi, dnf repoquery --installed %{reason} (dnf4
and dnf5 words) and the Installed line of zypper info (rpm plus libzypp's
AutoInstalled when zypper is locked). A row whose old version is "-" is
not installed and the backend is not asked. The "(installed)" qualifier
moves to --help, README and DESIGN.
The rpm E2E fixture and e2e_reset now also mark su-dummy-a and su-dummy-c
as user-installed on dnf, which records plain rpm installs as "unknown",
so 1? and 2? show both reasons on all 12 distros. The verified commands
are recorded in discovery/{apt,pacman,rpm}.md.
bryanpedini