Hi Fabio, Interesting. I guess this comes down to whether a piece of software’s platform is where it runs, or where it is consumed. In a remote-terminal environment, the lines blur a bit. Anyway, it’s fine; I can maintain my own repository for running this on all of my (Arch Linux) servers. Thanks for the reply -Kevin

On Jun 27, 2016, at 03:12, Muflone wrote:

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Hello,

I am the (now former) maintainer of the imgcat package in AUR.

Hi Kevin

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The package was deleted because it was “Mac-only” software. This is not true. imgcat is a shell script that allows images to be displayed in a terminal window. (xterm also has this functionality, though I don’t think imgcat’soutput escape sequences are compatible.) It’s true, it currently only works with iTerm2, which is Mac software.

I was unable to use imgcat with both xterm, tilda and gnome-terminal emulators. I'm pretty sure that is doesn't work with any GNU/Linux terminal emulator.

Such software, which only scope is to be used from a Mac only software shouldn't have a place in the AUR, which is specific to the Arch Linux distribution.

Samba, ntfs-3g, hfstools and similar softwares are to be used from any GNU/Linux to achieve a goal which is directly related to the Arch Linux. IMHO imgcat doesn't fall in this category.

Regards.

-- Fabio Castelli aka Muflone