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Pro You can adapt PKGBUILD to your needs during the (pre-)installation process
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Yaourt
5 years ago
I'm honestly surprised people still use yaourt. According to the github page, the last update it received (4 moths ago) was for translations. Otherwise it hasn't seen updates in years. Not only that, but it lacks many features that should be considered standard among such tools. Heck I'd recomme...
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Colored outputPro
Adds seamless access to the AURCon
Breaks when updating AUR packages as rootCon
Does not perform clean buildsCon
Bad split packages supportCon
InsecureCon
Not maintained anymoreComments
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Con By default requires user input separately for each build instead of once before building them all
Yaourt will ask you whether you want to alter the PKGBUILD before building a package. However it will do this once at a time, meaning that it will let the user modify the PKGBUILD, build the package, let the user modify the next PKGBUILD, build the next package etc.
This leads to the user being forced to constantly watch the yaourt command whether it requires input to proceed.
You may completely supress the option to view and alter the PKGBUILDs by passing --noconfirm
to yaourt.
Con Breaks when updating AUR packages as root
Does not gracefully drop permissions when executing makepkg, which fails when running as root.