Honestly, from a day to day standpoint, by my experience of using both, there’s little practical difference between, for example, yay, and paru — it mostly just ends up coming down to subjective, nitpicky meta things about the program itself.
Up until this post, I hadn’t heard of Aura, but, after briefly looking at its repo, it appears that it’s effectively the same as yay and paru [1.2]; what it tries to do differently is it tries to ensure that there are translations of it (I’m guessing its output) in other languages [1.1.1]. One thing that I’m knee-jerk not super fond of is that it utilizes its own centralized metadata server [1.1.2], though I admit that I haven’t thought about that a great deal, so perhaps there are some aspects that about it that I’m missing, or perhaps misunderstanding, or perhaps there’s a different way to view it.
[…] From the beginning, Aura has been built with multiple-language support in mind […]
Section: “Independence”.
Aura has its own […] Metadata Server called the Faur. The Faur in particular helps reduce traffic to the main AUR server and allows us to provide unique package lookup schemes not otherwise available.
Section: “What is Aura?”.
Aura is a package manager for Arch Linux. Its original purpose was in supplementing Pacman to support the building of AUR packages […].
Honestly, from a day to day standpoint, by my experience of using both, there’s little practical difference between, for example,
yay, andparu— it mostly just ends up coming down to subjective, nitpicky meta things about the program itself.Up until this post, I hadn’t heard of Aura, but, after briefly looking at its repo, it appears that it’s effectively the same as
yayandparu[1.2]; what it tries to do differently is it tries to ensure that there are translations of it (I’m guessing its output) in other languages [1.1.1]. One thing that I’m knee-jerk not super fond of is that it utilizes its own centralized metadata server [1.1.2], though I admit that I haven’t thought about that a great deal, so perhaps there are some aspects that about it that I’m missing, or perhaps misunderstanding, or perhaps there’s a different way to view it.References