Feature request: flag to automatically say yes to "Proceed with installation"

[mxmilkiib]

A flag to automatically say yes to the "Proceed with installation" question when doing an -Syu (if there is space enough available for the upgrade).

[Morganamilo]

The pacman -Syu call may ask you about replaces, conflicts, keys, ect. So It's not really possible to automatically say yes without noconfim'ing the entire operation. See #653

[mxmilkiib]

Thanks for your prompt reply. Indeed. Let me extend my proposal's caveat; if there is space enough available for the upgrade and there are no package replacements, conflicts or prompts regarding keys. Or might this not be possible in the context of yay being a pacman wrapper?

[Morganamilo]

Not possible unless yay were to reimplement all of those things that pacman does. But that would be a huge effort and pointless when pacman already has the code. What's one more key press anyway?

[mxmilkiib]

I like to start an upgrade just before I go do household chores or some other afk task. I have a problem with my attention, so all to often I start the process, walk away, then forget to come back ~50 seconds later to press enter, and nothing has happened. I was wondering if this essentially pointless requirement for an interaction could be automated away for [the] 90% of times [that it is pointless], but it can't at the level of yay. Thanks anyway.

[mxmilkiib]

For reference; I managed to find, via the help of elibrokeit in #archlinux-aur, that it's apparently as simple as "echo y | ...".

I didn't want to use --noconfirm as I just wish to use I'm happy with a pause on a package replace request or such.

Though, saying that, I'm contemplating switching to use pacmatic, mostly for the configuration file management aspect.

(Fyi; my attention is bad, I get bored and start doing multiple things to fill in the time, then I don't wish to lose the progress/flow, so I end up further from starting/completing my original task, so I try to use principals from behavioural psychology by shaping my environment to lower 'distractions'.)

[Morganamilo]

Isn't the confirmation for a pacman -Syu pretty much instant though? All it does before hand is refresh the databases which should only take about 5 seconds really. So I don't really see where you've given the chance to get distracted.

Also thinking about it pacman -Syu --noconfirm && yay -Sua might do what you want. Also there's --combinedupgrade in case you were not aware of that flag.

[Flurrywinde]

I also wanted this. So far, using expect has been working:

expectupdates() {
expect << EOF
  spawn yay -Syu
  expect_background -ex "Proceed with installation" {send "y\n"}
  interact
EOF
}

Just call this bash function in place of yay -Syu and it will skip past only the "Proceed with installation" prompt.

Edit: You need to have expect installed. (yay expect)