On 19/09/17 12:25, Allan McRae wrote: > On 19/09/17 12:09, Moses Miller wrote: >> Pacman currently only allows installing from .pkg.tar.xz files. Usually, >> this makes sense, as packages are compressed server-side. However, this >> can become a real problem when installing packages, especially large >> packages from the aur; you are wasting cycles compressing a package just >> to decompress it a few moments later. >> >> As an example, I have the 'unreal-engine' package installed from the >> aur. Unreal engine is a *huge* piece of software, and the compression >> actually takes *longer* than the entire building process (on my cpu, >> anyway, which has 4 cores + hyperthreading - xz only runs on one core). >> >> Adding this option would cut down quite a lot on the time it takes to >> build packages like this, with no downside (that I can see). >> >> Any thoughts? >> > > PKGEXT=tar makepkg >
Acutally... PKGEXT=.pkg.tar
