Hello list,
Both packages are built with NVIDIA and full Cairo support, despite the fact that conky-lua-nv does not list cairo as a dependency.
As extra repo's conky is also built with Lua and NVIDIA features, keeping conky-lua-nv is superfluous.
I don't disagree with having packages merged but as also mentioned on the AUR page the conky-cairo package appeared on the AUR much later than conky-lua-nv with almost the exact compile flags (just check the git history for ~late 2016ish). At the time some or all of the added flags weren't available on the repo package (hence the package name). As new versions were published more features have been absorbed into the repo package. I guess at some point #77168 wil be resolved it will absord the final bits and we'll get rid of any additional packages and these absurdities, but that's not happening yet.
I've notified users of 'conky-lua-nv', via comments, to switch over to either extra/conky or to AUR/conky-cairo - first on 2023-08-20, then again on 2023-10-11.
The requester, really wants to have conky-lua-nv (along with another couple dozen pages of packages in aur-requests) deleted spamming both the aur-requests list with frivolous requests and the AUR package page urging users to stop using this "obsolete" package. I honestly don't even care that much but the pushiness is annoying. Best On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 12:06, <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
MarsSeed [1] filed a request to merge conky-lua-nv [2] into conky- cairo [3]:
'conky-lua-nv' is actually a duplicate of 'conky-cairo'.
Lua support is mandatory on all conky 1.10+ versions.
Both packages are built with NVIDIA and full Cairo support, despite the fact that conky-lua-nv does not list cairo as a dependency.
As extra repo's conky is also built with Lua and NVIDIA features, keeping conky-lua-nv is superfluous.
(Btw extra/conky also supports the cairo library, but does not seem to enable Lua bindings for that - there's a pending ticket for it: FS#77168 [a].)
I've notified users of 'conky-lua-nv', via comments, to switch over to either extra/conky or to AUR/conky-cairo - first on 2023-08-20, then again on 2023-10-11.
[a]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77168
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/conky-lua-nv/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/conky-cairo/