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?
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