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Add to SafariWhen comparing trizen vs aurutils, the Slant community recommends trizen for most people. In the question“What are the best AUR helpers for Arch-based Linux distributions?” trizen is ranked 2nd while aurutils is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose trizen is:
It's very intuitive and has a pacman-like syntax.
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Pros
Pro Easy to use
It's very intuitive and has a pacman-like syntax.
Pro 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.
Pro Lightweight
It's written in Perl instead of Go that makes it so lightweight.
Pro AUR comments, search and upgrade support
It can display comments for AUR packages, search for AUR packages and check for AUR package updates.
Pro Secure
The PKGBUILD is not executed before it is displayed to the user and optionally edited.
Pro Availability
It's in the Manjaro packages.
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.
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