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axu - a cli tool to check your Arch Linux explicitly installed packages updates

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In Arch Linux, to check what updates are available, you can use the `checkupdates` command, but this command does not apply to the AUR package. To check what AUR package updates are available, use the `yay -Qua` command. Both commands will display a list of packages that have the latest version, but both commands also display packages that are installed as dependencies. Here, I only care about the list of packages that I installed myself (Explicitly installed). Therefore, I created a cli tool called axu (Arch eXplicit Updates). axu is similar to the `checkupdates` and `yay -Qua` commands, except that it only displays a list of explicitly installed packages (not dependencies). axu also provides better output than `checkupdates` and `yay -Qua` because axu separates each update into 5 categories, namely: - Major - Minor - Patch - Build - Git Determining the type of update is by following the semantic versioning (SemVer) rules. For those of you who want to try it, this package is already available on AUR: ```bash yay -S axu-bin ``` This program was originally written in TypeScript, but then I ported it to Rust.