Back when I used arch, I would use aurutils which has a flag for building the packages in a chroot. It won't prevent bad PKGBUILDs from being written, but at le

Back when I used arch, I would use aurutils which has a flag for building the packages in a chroot. It won't prevent bad PKGBUILDs from being written, but at least they'll fail to build on your machine! aurutils was also nice since it creates a regular pacman repo, so you end up installing the final built packages the same way you install any other package.