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Comment by jleahy | Hacker News Reader

Spotify is 273MB (on Linux at least), 70MB for the binary and 137MB for Chrome, plus some other bits and bobs.

  $ pacman -Qi spotify
  Name            : spotify
  Version         : 1:1.1.10.546-4
  Description     : A proprietary music streaming service
  Architecture    : x86_64
  ...
  Installed Size  : 272.79 MiB

So at least it's smaller than Slack.

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I have a noob question, but how do proprietary apps (IE: Slack) make it onto the AUR without having an official binary?

Both Slack and Spotify do provide Linux versions, even if not/less supported officially.

Thanks! I hadn't tried Arch yet, but I just saw the pkgbuild script on the site (didn't know it was there) and it makes since now :)

There’s nothing to really block much on the aur. There are some guidelines in naming and no duplicates, no maliciousness etc that are enforced, but that’s it. But anyone can upload a build script (PKGBUILD) for anything.

If you want to see how it’s done search the package name and AUR and you can see the build script right on the website.

TIL! Thank you :)

There are many PKGBUILDs on AUR that cactually download rpm / deb packages and unpack the binaries and deps from it.

iTunes, in all its bloated, much-maligned media-managing glory, is a mere 188 megs on my Mac.

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