pacman experimental

System packages for Arch-family Linux (Arch, Manjaro, EndeavourOS, ...).

[system.packages]
"pacman:openssl" = "latest"
"pacman:base-devel" = "latest"

Behavior

• Package state is checked with pacman -Q (read-only, never elevates).
• Missing packages are installed with pacman -S --noconfirm --needed, elevated with sudo when necessary (see sudo). --needed makes installs idempotent.
• If /var/lib/pacman/sync contains no databases (fresh containers), mise runs pacman -Sy automatically before installing. Force a refresh with mise system install --update.
• mise system upgrade runs pacman -Sy and then upgrades only the configured packages. Note that Arch officially supports only full-system upgrades (pacman -Syu) — upgrading individual packages is a partial upgrade, so prefer running pacman -Syu yourself on a rolling-release system.

WARNING

Arch repositories only carry the latest version of each package, so pacman entries cannot be installed at a pinned version — mise system install skips pinned entries with a warning, though mise system status still reports a version mismatch for them. AUR packages are not supported (they require an AUR helper and building from source).