MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for android-sdk-dummy [2]: Dummy packages are not useful to provide to a package manager, and they are not allowed on AUR. Having a dummy package installed defeats the purpose of using a package manager. If a package requires another package, there's a good reason for it, and both should be installed in the system for them to work. No one forces anyone to install Android IDE's and Android SDK's / platform tools they use for development into the system. They can live happily inside the user's home folder as well. In that case, the user is not using pacman to manage those installations. If an AUR package requires Android SDK platform tools, both should be managed by the package manager. Developers have to ensure that they have sufficient storage space on their system for their particular developer activity, but disk space is not that expensive nowadays. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/android-sdk-dummy/