The inevitable Bauerbill, Clyde, Packer or other AUR helpers thread

Question

Some new titans among the many AUR helpers. Hard to choose between them, if necessary at all ;-)
The big newcomers:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=91860
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88247
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88115
Tell us your experience about the scripts, preferably a list of cons and pros in the light of the other ones. No flames please.
Authors contributions are welcome ;-)
I personally only used bauerbill so far, i really love it, but I cant tell the difference obviously.
Last edited by SanskritFritz (2010-03-06 12:00:30)

Answer 1

I've always been torn between AUR handlers, as they each seem to have options I want / don't want. Used yaourt for a long time just to browse the AUR basically, but since uninstalled it. It seems clyde is much faster for that, though I can honestly say I didn't give it too much of a try. I generally like Bauerbill because it can fetch PKGBUILDs for dependencies too (even though I still abort after I get the PKGBUILD so I can browse the /src folder for configuration reasons, as I don't always know what features I want off-hand).
For me it's difficult to find something that fetches the information/PKGBUILDs and then lets me work on it myself. For the longest time I simply created a folder with the package name and did either "cp -R /var/abs/$repo/$pkgname $PWD" or "yaourt -G pkgname" (depending on if it's in repo or AUR) and then configured/compiled it from there. Although this seems a minor amount of work involved it's still irritating to do this for every single dependency, soooo I'm in the works of my own handler (so far I've only got [for the most part] the ABS side worked out, but am working on AUR support next). If anything ever comes of it I'll post it somewhere (Yeah, just what we need). In the meantime I'm using my handler for the ABS/repo side and bauerbill for AUR. So with this in mind I'm still pro-bauerbill.
Last edited by milomouse (2010-03-06 10:29:43)