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How to ask for root password from the user for my GUI app which pipes it to makepkg?

I was learning rust. I am building a simple GUI application that scrapes through aur and install a package. I am using tauri for GUI.

So, to install an aur application, I will run makepkg -si inside the package directory. But, it asks for root password in the middle of installing. After searching web, I came to know, I can use pkexec to ask password graphically but pkexec is like using sudo and running makepkg as sudo is not allowed.

Any idea what should i do? Is there any articles where i can look into it?