pacman <Badge type="warning" text="experimental" />

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

toml

[bootstrap.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 bootstrap packages install --update.
mise bootstrap packages 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 bootstrap packages install skips pinned entries with a warning, though mise bootstrap packages status still reports a version mismatch for them. AUR packages are not supported (they require an AUR helper and building from source). :::