When comparing aurman vs aurutils, the Slant community recommends aurman for most people. In the question“What are the best AUR helpers for Arch-based Linux distributions?” aurman is ranked 9th while aurutils is ranked 12th.
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Pros
Pro Native pacman compliant
Pro Secure
According to Archwiki: "does not source the PKGBUILD at all by default; or, alerts the user and offers the opportunity to inspect the PKGBUILD manually before it is sourced. Some helpers are known to source PKGBUILDs before the user can inspect them, allowing malicious code to be executed. Optional means that there is a command line flag or configuration option to prevent the automatic sourcing before viewing."
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro Support for clean chroot builds
aurutils has seamless support for building packages in the same chroot containers used for building official repository packages.
Cons
Con Tends to break easily
Due to a lot of Python dependencies, aurman tends to break after Python/libraries updates. Most of the time, the fix is as simple as reinstalling aurman.