waschtl [1] filed a deletion request for xf86-video-nv [2]: * This package is superseded. The package extra/xf86-video-nouveau can presumably do everything this one does, just much more smoothly. * This package is no longer developed. The most recent version is 2.1.21 from 2017-01-17. In 2010, NVIDIA stated that this driver will not get support for new cards, and future X server versions will only be supported "within reason" [1] * This package causes confusion. A newcomer to proprietary NVIDIA drivers in Arch will see the various nvidia* packages, assuming they only contain a kernel module. Since they in fact also contain the xorg driver, there is no package named xf86-video-nvidia. Before realizing this, they are likely to attempt to use this package due to its similar name, assuming that the names haven't been homogenized. * This package is an orphan. * This package does not compile with the current version of xorg due to its dependency on X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION=23. It also contains an explicit conflict with all other versions. Presumably this might be fixed in 2.1.21, but in almost 3 years, no one stepped in to update this package. [1] https://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/News/NVIDIA-Drops-Xf86-video- nv-Support-No-Open-Source-for-New-Cards [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/waschtl/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/xf86-video-nv/