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trizen
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Easy to use
It's very intuitive and has a pacman-like syntax.
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Being written in Perl, trizen has an extra level of security over bash as well as performance and power benefits inherent to Perl
It is written in Perl in a functional-recurisive way, featuring full AUR dependencies support. Being written in Perl (or any other language, except bash), it means that it can't execute/source (silently) the PKGBUILD to get information for a package, which guarantees an extra-level of security. Other benefits are the performance and power that comes with Perl.
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Lightweight
It's written in Perl instead of Go that makes it so lightweight.
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AUR comments, search and upgrade support
It can display comments for AUR packages, search for AUR packages and check for AUR package updates.
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Secure
The PKGBUILD is not executed before it is displayed to the user and optionally edited.
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Availability
It's in the Manjaro packages.
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Pakku
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Auto removes build dependencies
Has option to auto remove all unused build dependencies.
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Wraps pacman
Installation or updates of official or aur packages can all be done with pakku.
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Uses pacman interface
Easy to use for anyone familiar with pacman.
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Aura
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Written in Haskell
Since the application is written in Haskell, it means that, unless the author went out of their way to subvert the type system, at least some classes of bugs must have been eliminated for the project to even compile, and so at least some basic level of stability is guaranteed.
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aura is difficult to use for system upgrade.
sudo aura -Syu searches for .sig files for each repository. .Sig files are not used with pacman
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Similar syntax to pacman
pacman -Ss ghc aura -As ghc
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Run as Root, Build as a User
makepkg gets very upset if you try to build a package as root. That said, a built package can't be handed off to pacman and installed if you don't run as root. Other AUR helpers ignore this problem, but Aura does not. Even when run with sudo, packages are built with normal user privilages, then handed to pacman and installed as root.
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yay
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Easy to add features
It's written in Go so it is fairly easy to add features or tweak this amazing tool.
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Written in Go
Running a Go program requires the Go runtime. Go is also a garbage collected language, so the program isn't as responsive as it could be.
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Intuitive CLI
Yay's commands and output make sense for anyone used to the pacman package manager.
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Written in Go
The compiled program is snappy while the source is easy to read.
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Available as a precompiled binary
Both yay and yay-bin are in the AUR, the latter of which doesn't require any dependencies or compilation, making installation and updates quick and painless.
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Yogurt interactive mode
Write package name without keys [yay <packagename>] to enter interactive mode.
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Doesn't rebuild already-installed apps like Trizen
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paru
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Based on the design of yay
You can simply alias yay=paru if you switch from yay.
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Fast
Paru is faster than yay.
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Actively maintained
With the main yay developer stepping away from yay, paru is more actively maintained than yay.
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Saner defaults than yay
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aurutils
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Support for custom repositories
By default, packages are built and stored in a custom local repository, allowing packages to be installed, upgraded, and removed through pacman -S the same way official repository packages are.
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Excellent split package and dependency support
Packages are built using tsort dependency ordering to ensure proper build order. The built packages are available in a custom repo and the user can easily install whichever parts of a split package they want.
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Support for clean chroot builds
aurutils has seamless support for building packages in the same chroot containers used for building official repository packages.
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Yaourt
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Insecure
More information here.
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Equivalent to pacman
Yaourt commands and flags match pacman, so it is immediately obvious how to use it.
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Not maintained anymore
According to the Wiki page of Archlinux, Yaourt development is stalled.
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Colored output
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Does not perform clean builds
Environment variables may get carried over while building a package, preventing successful building.
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Adds seamless access to the AUR
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Bad split packages support
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Can be set up upgrade your system with no additional prompts
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You can adapt PKGBUILD to your needs during the (pre-)installation process
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Supports backups
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