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Imho, especially things that are important solutions to common things on the Archwiki but are AUR, indicated with the AUR superscript there.

For example for MTP: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Media_Transfer_Protocol The one that worked most stable for me was simple-mtpfs, but it's AUR.

It happens with other archwiki topics too, I encounter it regularly though can't think of good examples from the top of my head currently. E.g. the btrfs article mentions several AUR utilities though admittedly nothing important I need right now :)

And then some important development tools, like closure-compiler https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/closure-compiler/

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>simple-mtpfs

Not maintained (last commit in 2016). So that will be something low on the priority list.

>btrfs

The dedupe tool looks interesting. Noted on my todo.

>closure-compiler

Was dropped from the repository. Probably because of the lack of an maintainer.

> Not maintained (last commit in 2016). So that will be something low on the priority list.

I see! Time for me to start looking for a new method of transfering files from android then, thanks for the heads up

Honestly I've always found MTP to be incredibly slow and sometimes unreliable.

I personally just install termux, which allows you to install openssh. Run sshd and then you can use rsync or scp or sshfs or other from the host PC.

There's a very nice open source sshd daemon based on dropbear that I use. Doesn't require root or anything. I use it for pretty much all my file transfer needs. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.galexander...

KDE Connect allows transferring individual files or browsing the Android filesystem, in addition to all its other goodies.

For MTP: gvfs-mtp is in the main repos, and pretty much the fullest-featured MTP implementation that exists, which includes all the extensions Android made to it to turn it into a block-oriented file system.

Honestly, MTP is terrible on every OS though. Mac and Windows have it a _lot_ worse for interacting with MTP devices.

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