[thenewnewguy]

> EDIT: nevermind, this doesn't seem to have made this the default for building packages locally, just for ones you download from the official repos. Guess I'll go change that by hand and then still be sad that I can't have it easily disabled entirely for AUR helpers but build my packages with compression.

I believe you can supply it via an environment variable if your AUR helper has the ability to set those for `makepkg`.

[SamWhited]

I'll have to experiment with that, thanks. Still, I don't understand why they don't just do it for me. Maybe they're aggressively caching packages and don't want to take the size hit or something.