What are the best AUR helpers for Arch-based Linux distributions?

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trizen is a lightweight wrapper for the Arch User Repository and for pacman.

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Slimothy
Trizen Perl

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Easy to use

It's very intuitive and has a pacman-like syntax.

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Prem Kumar

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Lightweight

It's written in Perl instead of Go that makes it so lightweight.

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Trizen Perl
Slimothy

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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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Trizen Perl

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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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Trizen Perl

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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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cosmo
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trizen
Recommended 5 years ago
Great experience all around!
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 Easy to use
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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
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 Secure
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 AUR comments, search and upgrade support
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CoherentProteus
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trizen
Recommended 4 years ago
its possible to edit pkgbuild before install
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trizen
Recommended 3 years ago
I prefer Trizen over yay due to it's more secure & lightweight PKGBUILD.
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