How can I monitor how many packages are there in the chaotic realtime?

[aljustiet]

I'm curious how can I do that.

[Technetium1]

pacman -Sql chaotic-aur | wc -l

Lists all packages excluding versions, counts the total number of lines.

EDIT: using q instead of awk 🙃

[xiota]

awk can be skipped, would result in same count: pacman -Sl chaotic-aur | wc -l

Can use cut instead of awk: pacman -Sl chaotic-aur | cut -d' ' -f2

[dr460nf1r3]

Or, for infra 4.0: https://aur.chaotic.cx/package-list.