Simply here to satisfy the unnecessary binutils dependency for mkinitcpio.
mkinitcpio uses objcopy from binutils to build a UKI (Unified Kernel Image), which is not enabled by default.
binutils is a 40 MiB collection of dev tools and is dragged in for every linux install through mkinitcpio.
It should have been made an optdepends.
I've complained but that has been ignored.
The authors don't seem to give a crap about dependency creep and bloat. Boo.