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Add to SafariWhen comparing Yaourt vs aurutils, the Slant community recommends Yaourt for most people. In the question“What are the best AUR helpers for Arch-based Linux distributions?” Yaourt is ranked 5th while aurutils is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Yaourt is:
Yaourt commands and flags match pacman, so it is immediately obvious how to use it.
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Pros
Pro Equivalent to pacman
Yaourt commands and flags match pacman, so it is immediately obvious how to use it.
Pro Colored output
Pro Adds seamless access to the AUR
Pro Can be set up upgrade your system with no additional prompts
Pro You can adapt PKGBUILD to your needs during the (pre-)installation process
Pro Supports backups
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 Insecure
More information here.
Con Not maintained anymore
According to the Wiki page of Archlinux, Yaourt development is stalled.
Con Does not perform clean builds
Environment variables may get carried over while building a package, preventing successful building.
Con Bad split packages support
