On 16 Apr 2012, at  8:37 pm -0400, John J. Foerch wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 02:07:58AM +0200, Thorsten wrote:
> > unfortunately, the Arch Linux maintainers decided a
> > while ago that the Conkeror Spawn Helper violates Arch
> > packaging philosophies and simply threw it out of the
> > conkeror package. 

This is no longer the case, as of February. See 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54870 .

> > However, I miss it.

Update, update!

> Do you know what about the program violated Arch's policy?

I think that the original maintainer thought it had to
reside in /usr/share/conkeror/. Per hier(7), /usr/share is
only for "application data, that can be shared among
different architectures of the same OS," so a compiled
binary is likely to be a violation of that.

iff
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