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Tupac is a front end to the Arch Linux package manager, Pacman. It’s very similar to Yaourt in that it has colored output and searches the AUR but does this all much faster. The speed is due to it’s cached implementation. All actual package installations are done with Yaourt. It was created by Pajaro and written in PHP.

Aside from the speed increase, search functionality was also improved. For instance if I search “city sim game” in Tupac I get the following results: lincity, lincity-ng, and opencity. If I do the same search in Yaourt or Pacman I will get many more unrelated results. For example I get back packages related to audacity and metacity.

Tupac is also written with other frontends in mind. As a proof of concept Pajaro has also more recently released Qupac. While still a new project it is very functional.

The only downside I could possible see with tupac is the fact that it is written in PHP and so depends on it being installed. Yaourt is a bash script and tupac it depends on it as well.

Both tupac and qupac can be found on the AUR.