yap

yap (Yet Another Package-frontend) is a simple, human-readable wrapper for yay, the popular AUR helper for Arch Linux.

It provides a user-friendly verb-based syntax instead of pacman/yay's traditional flag-based system.

Features

• Intuitive Syntax: use yap install instead of yay -S.
• Transparent: All commands are proxied to yay, preserving interactive prompts, colors, and functionality.
• Safe: No complex internal logic—just simple argument mapping.

Usage

Command	Equivalent yay Command	Description
yap update	yay -Syu	Update all packages (Repo + AUR)
yap install <pkg>	yay -S <pkg>	Install packages
yap remove <pkg>	yay -Rs <pkg>	Remove packages (keep config)
yap purge <pkg>	yay -Rns <pkg>	Remove packages and config
yap search <query>	yay -Ss <query>	Search for packages
yap info <pkg>	yay -Si <pkg>	Show package info
yap clean	yay -Sc	Clean package cache
yap autoremove	yay -Yc	Remove unneeded dependencies
yap list	yay -Q	List all installed packages
yap list explicit	yay -Qe	List explicitly installed packages
yap list native	yay -Qn	List native repository packages
yap list aur	yay -Qm	List AUR packages

Installation

AUR (Arch Linux)

yap is available on the AUR as yap-bin.

yay -S yap-bin

Manual Build

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/michaelmassoni/yap.git
   cd yap

2. Build and install:

   go build -o yap main.go
   sudo mv yap /usr/local/bin/