On further investigation it seems removing the fuse part is simple enough. The folks at archlinux.org have created an exfat-utils-nofuse package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/exfat-utils-nofuse/ ) with a simple patch that simply removes the fuse part for exfat-utils ( https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/nofuse.patch?h=exfat-utils-nofuse ).
On further investigation it seems removing the fuse part is simple enough. The folks at archlinux.org have created an exfat-utils-nofuse package ( https:/ /aur.archlinux. org/packages/ exfat-utils- nofuse/ ) with a simple patch that simply removes the fuse part for exfat-utils ( https:/ /aur.archlinux. org/cgit/ aur.git/ tree/nofuse. patch?h= exfat-utils- nofuse ).