MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for gflags-static [2]: Unneeded variant/duplicate of repo gflags package. The latter already contains the static .a library as well. Nothing on AUR depends specifically on this package. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/gflags-static/