On 7/22/20 11:50 AM, Ben Oliver via arch-general wrote: > On 2020-07-22 14:54:13, Ram Kumar via arch-general wrote: >> is is possible to include Polybar to the official packages under extra or >> community? if not could u plz explain? > > Polybar requires optional modules to be already installed before you compile > it. Once built with those, it won't run without those dependencies installed. > > So to have a pre-compiled version you would need to either force-install > every optional dependency with the Arch package (no longer 'optional', and > kills extendability), or make decisions on which features to include/exclude > (no longer 'customisable'). > > Unless this changes I don't see that polybar is compatible with Arch > packaging. However, the AUR is an ideal place for it.
This is correct. The polybar developers are aware of this, too, but it still needs to be fixed. -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
