Allow automation to manage plugins with hyprpm (0.49+)

[markmandel]

With Hyprland 0.49 I can no longer automate the installation of plugins (I use ansible to usually do this), as there is no way (at least that I can find) that let's me pass in the sudo password required, nor can I use sudo hyprpm to elevate permissions and avoid the password prompt.

For context, here is what previously worked:
https://github.com/markmandel/dotfiles/blob/80d7a4e78244727a8fa71fcf2b3b2ff6dc67cef4/provision/ui/tasks/hyprland-theme.yaml#L72-L83

A few feature request ideas that may help resolve this issue:

• Allow for sudo hyprpm to bypass the password prompt (since the permissions are already elevated). Not sure if this is possible, since hyprpm may need the current user's context.
• Allow the ability to pass in the sudo password as an argument on the command line as a flag.
• Side note -- would also be handy to have a --quiet option to avoid the confirmation step as well.

For now I can install and manage plugins manually, but it would be nice to be able to do this via automation again.

[noctuid]

It would be nice if you could just have a declarative config/list of plugins (e.g. like yazi adds to its package.toml file when installing a plugin).

[markmandel]

I like this idea as well!

[fufexan]

If you're not tied to hyprpm, you can build plugins separately and add their paths to a generated config file with either plugin = /path/to/plugin.so or exec-once = hyprctl plugin load /path/to/plugin.so, which gets sourced by the main config.

[Rizhiy]

Are there any updates on this issue? The fact that I can't run hyprpm as sudo is annoying.
Furthermore, hyprpm sudo request doesn't recognise existing sudo calls for some reason, so I have to enter my password again just for hyprpm.
This script should only ask for my password once, but currently it asks twice.

sudo ls
hyprpm add https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-plugins