paru VS trizen

I would also get a AUR helper, I'd recommend paru (don't forget to configure /etc/paru.conf). Just make sure you're checking the validity of AUR packages.

as the uncommented lines. This has been the default since at least April 2022.

I've just discovered that paru supports adding your own changes to PKGBUILD files if they are committed to the cached git repos and merging them with any upstream upgrades:

If you use AUR packages, you might want to use an AUR helper that wraps pacman, like paru or yay.

paru is an AUR Helper, which also will perform pacman actions (install, upgrade, removal, etc)

maybe check out paru - it throws up the PKGBUILD whenever you’re installing a package (or upgrading one when it’s changed)

paru: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru

Thanks. Installing intel-ipu6-dkms-git from AUR using paru is giving error, says

I switched from Arch to Gentoo because I ended up increasingly dependent upon AUR packages. That's not a big deal by itself, but I kept running into more and more frequent build failures with AUR packages that I couldn't sort out. This despite the fact that I used a very nice AUR package manager called Trizen. The final straw was when I started using hardware that, for some reason, didn't play well with Arch at install time but worked just fine with Gentoo.

see here: https://github.com/trizen/trizen/blob/master/TRIZEN.md

As a side note, I use the trizen AUR helper program to install AUR packages because one of it's nice features over yay, etc, is that it by default shows the content of the PKGBUILD and any other files (patches etc) for an AUR package, so you can see or edit them before installing a package.

doas pacman -S --needed --asdeps pacutils perl-libwww perl-term-ui perl-json perl-data-dump perl-lwp-protocol-https perl-term-readline-gnu && \ \ curl -L https://github.com/trizen/trizen/raw/master/trizen | perl - -- -S trizen