On 4/24/26 1:37 PM, kleines Filmröllchen wrote:
paru (which I use almost exclusively for building AUR packages, except
my own and when things severely break) shows you the PKGBUILD and
every single file in the package repo, including with diffs if you are
updating the package. There is the --skipreview flag but it’s not the
default (and I only found out now that it exists when double-checking
the CLI).
All to say that paru, from a users perspective, is barely doing
anything more than
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/<pkgname>.git
cd <pkgname>
git diff ..<origin commit or previous commit>
makepkg -i
The main advantage of AUR helper is dependency management - if I want to
install package X, helper will install all dependencies from AUR and
from official repos. Doing it by hand with makepkg is cumbersome.
Regrds,
Łukasz
