2012/2/17 Mike Sampson <[email protected]> > 2012/2/17 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <[email protected]>: > > 2012/2/17 Mike Sampson <[email protected]>: > >> 2012/2/17 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <[email protected]>: > >>> I realize there are two AUR uploader helper, aurploader[1] and > >>> burp[2]？Which one is you guys using? What's the pro and con? > >>> > >> [snip] > >> > >> I was using aurploader until recently but gave burp a go after I tried > >> cower by the same aurthor. I really liked cower and burp looks a > >> little more snappy to me than aurploader. > >> > >> Mike > > > > I am using yaourt for a while and it is painfull to choose between so > > much aur helps. > > > > How about cower compare to yaourt? > > I can't really compare yaourt and cower as I never used an aur helper > before (except aurploader for uploading). > > I used to use a simple BASH script to download and extract the > tarballs containing the PKGBUILDs, etc but this was getting difficult > to manage, ie no searching or notification of new package updates. > > Those are the features of cower I use the most, search and status of > packages. It works well for me. > > Mike >
FYI cower and burp are developed by Dave Reisner, a current developer of pacman ;) Cower can't be compared to yaourt as it only downloads packages doesn't build them. I use both cower and burp, they are very handy when you work with a terminal :) -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)
