Amber (@amber@toot.site)
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@abloo I suspect those things need either wayland OR xorg and perhaps you just dont have xorg?
This is something the arch packagers did
Just checked and it's A DAMN BUILD DEPENDANCY
@abloo yea but then why are the other packages claiming they depend on it... iw ouldnt expect an indirect dependency to be reported that way....
Dependancies arent handled very well on arch
Idealy i'd be able to maintain my own repo but i dont have the time or patince to do that
@abloo While arch has been very managable I will admit that I have had some trouble with the dependency rats nest as well, especially when you try to delete a dependency or revert to an older one.
Sadly one of the big issues with a rolling system that aggressively purges older versions and relies heavily on AURs that may need said versions.
Sometimes i miss my Gentoo days just because they would actually maintain quite a few older versions for exactly that reason.
@abloo It has been a few years since I actually used gentoo honestly. But I do recall it being rather trivial to insert your own modified version of a package.
Yea I do recall i had maintained several overlays and found the way they implemented it to be great. Much easier than running your arch repo... Though its been so long I dont remember how to do it off hand other than it just sits a directory in your system you point to with config.
