xtools

About

xtools is a collection of small utilities in the form of shell scripts for use with XBPS consisting of shell scripts providing more utility out of the existing XBPS binaries.

Instead of just shortening commands, they provide more utility to your system. A good example is considering xmandoc which can give you man pages in the tty without having to access any extermal utility like search engines, archwiki or even Void's website.

Below are some of my favorite ones:

  xcheckrestart [-v]
        – list programs using outdated libraries
          -v  verbose mode, also print the library names

  xi pkgs ...
        – like ‘xbps-install -S’, but take cwd repo and sudo/su into account

  xlocate
        [-g | -S | pattern] – locate files in all XBPS packages
          -g  Update a git based xlocate database, useful for local
              repositories
          -S  Sync with the official git based xlocate database, which is
              recommended before using the tool

  xls pkg ...
        – list files contained in pkg (including binpkgs)

  xmandoc manpage
        – read manpage of possibly not installed package

  xmksv [newsvdir]
        – create new runit service templates

  xpkg [-R repo [-r rootdir [-amOHDvV]]]
        – convenient package lister
          -R repo
              consider only packages from repo
          -r rootdir
              specifies a full path for the target root directory
          -a  list all packages (default: only installed)
          -m  list manual packages
          -O  list orphaned packages
          -H  list packages on hold
          -D  list installed packages not in repo
          -L  list installed packages not from remote repos
          -v  show version numbers
          -V  show version numbers and description

  xrs pattern
        – like xbps-query -Rs, but take cwd repo into account

  xsrc pkg
        – list source files for XBPS template

  xuname
        – display system info relevant for debugging Void

  xvoidstrap dir [packages]
        – bootstrap a new Void installation
  

I even went as far as writing my own! xrm is a simple wrapper around xbps-remove that removes packages from the system saving you the effort of escalating your privledges with sudo or doas.

$ xrm package

$ xrm -oORy package

$ xrm --remove-orphans --clean-cache --recursive --yes package

To install it with one command, i recommend running this curl command.

curl -O https://sm-idk.me/d/xrm && chmod +x xrm && sudo mv xrm /bin/