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by throwaway1832 268 days ago
> Also, pacman can't handle AUR.

This just shows that you don't have a good understanding of how pacman(8) or makepkg(8) operates on Arch Linux.

makepkg is the command that builds the actual packages from PKGBUILDs, pacman' job is to install those packages.

makepkg unlike paru is not a wrapper and is part of pacman itself.