Add contextual help to Yay operations - #2921
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Instead of `yay -<op> --help` printing the entire help message, it will now print a contextual help message based on the operation being performed. The top-level help message shows available operations and global flags as before. It no longer shows operation-specific flags and `pacman -S --help` output. Like the pacman output, it shows that you can get operation-specific help by running `yay -<op> --help`. The operation-specific help message shows the operation's flags and all pacman operation flags pass through to pacman.
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This is a proposal to add #2780. I thought this would be a good addition to yay because it's exactly how pacman operates. Happy to discuss this further too.
Instead of
yay -<op> --helpprinting the entire help message, it will now print a contextual help message based on the operation being performed.The top-level help message shows available operations and global flags as before. It no longer shows operation-specific flags and
pacman -S --helpoutput. Like the pacman output, it shows that you can get operation-specific help by runningyay -<op> --help.The operation-specific help message shows the operation's flags and all pacman operation flags pass through to pacman.
Specifying
-Vand--versionnow always shows the version rather than havingyay -V --helpshow the help message.