On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 12:25, Ivy Foster via aur-general <aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
Looking at arcan, why do you break it up into so many different sub-packages? I understand that they provide different tools, but typically Arch just packages toolsuites together unless there's a compelling reason to separate some of them.
arcan is a display server/protocol like x11 or wayland. The upstream releases include demo programs and misc tools. IMO including them all in one package would be like including xeyes in the xorg-server package: very few users would find it useful. Other pieces like arcan-acfgfs bring in dependencies (in this example: fuse3) that are not necessary for the protocol as a whole.
Also, libarena has https sources/url available.
Will update.