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seriously considering not updating this module anymore. I no longer use
ArchLinux as much as I used to. I tried to keep things as backwards
compatible as possible but there were many changes to the API that reflect
libalpm's many API changes.

** ALPM "handle" objects.

The ALPM class now creates objects when an instance of ALPM is
initialized. In libalpm these are called handles. Here they are simply
objects. You will have to change every class method (ALPM->foo) to use
an ALPM object method instead ($alpm->foo). Luckily I decided to use
class methods years ago so this will be less painful.

*** ALPM errors are stored inside handles.

This makes things more difficult for me. Given an ALPM::DB object, if you
call a method on that object and the method fails, I cannot croak an error
message internally because the ALPM handle is not available.

** ALPM::Group is no longer a class.

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INTRODUCTION

This is a perl XS module which provides an interface to the libalpm C library.
libalpm is used by Archlinux (and other distributions) who use pacman as the
package managing program.

Read-only access is provided to the database. All transaction creation logic
was removed from this module. After each major pacman upgrade, and sub-
sequent libalpm API change, I would be forced to rewrite a majority of this
module. After the third or fourth time I decided it was not worth the effort
for a feature possibly no one uses in an obscure perl module no one knows
about.

If you really need transactions why not call pacman with "system" or
backticks? In contrast, complicated queries becomes ugly and convoluted
when calling pacman in shell scripts. With the aid of this module, queries
should instead be possible in the quintessential ugly and succinct perl form.
Small utility scripts, like the examples, can also be quickly drawn up. This
is the new goal of the module.