Clearing Uninstalled Packages from Cache

[jdholtz]

Hello. Just started using this tool and it's very helpful. I was wondering if there is an option to remove all AUR packages not currently installed on my system. This would be what the question Do you want to remove all other AUR packages from cache? when running yay -Sca does.

For example, I download an AUR package. Then I remove it. However, the directory for the AUR package still exists in the cache. Is there an option to remove these directories? If not, I think this would need to be implemented a bit differently than paccache, as the yay cache stores each package inside its own directory (and I don't think paccache has the logic for handling that).

The biggest reason I’d want this is to use it within a libalpm hook. Another possible solution is also running yay -Sca in a hook and only saying yes to the first question.