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eschwartz: Yeah, I'm probably going to do that way. Also: if I make a split package with pkgbase=mindustry and which contains two packages mindustry and mindustry-server, should I ask for deletion of mindustry-server?

That would be my recommendation. :) Change this one to build from source, and add a pinned comment telling people where to find a precompiled binary package if they prefer.

eschwartz: So should I make a pinned comment about the split of this package into mindustry and mindustry-bin?

No, you're wrong. People who have installed this package already are expecting to install "the software", and are ambivalent about how it is created. People who go to download a package ending in -bin are explicitly saying "I consider using precompiled assets to be important".

Also there is already a notification system, it is called "the comments section". :)

eschwartz: because most people who have already installed this package are expecting a pre-compiled binary, I can't think of a way to add compilation here and notify users about migration to mindustry-bin.

Why not just update it to run ./gradlew desktop:dist on the downloaded source code?

vasya, thanks for your suggestion. I may be missremembering, but I read somewhere on ArchWiki that Java applications are the only exception to the -bin suffix rule. Although I couldn't find anything like that now, so yeah, I'm going to rename this package. Thanks!

Hi Dmitro! Thanks for publishing the game. Can you change the package name to "mindustry-bin" please? The general AUR guidelines say to use the name of "-bin" if the AUR package uses already built binaries, or use a name without "-bin" if sources are downloaded and then built.