xbps VS libxft-bgra

I wrote the ignorepkg feature for xbps, specifically for cases like this. https://github.com/void-linux/xbps/pull/62

xbps-remove -O: this deletes outdated packages from the cache, the confusion probably comes from that it does not remove packages that are not installed anymore. I have an open PR for xbps to implement cleaning packages that are not installed anymore uptodate. https://github.com/void-linux/xbps/pull/530

More info about xbps flags can be found on the respective man pages and on the xbps github

This is knowwn bug of xbps without released fix as for now https://github.com/void-linux/xbps/issues/312.

void-linux/xbps/issues/57 is the issue to follow, but i doubt it will happen soon...

BUGS Probably, but I try to make this not happen. Use it under your own responsibility and enjoy your life. Report bugs at https://github.com/void-linux/xbps/issues

mpv and the xbps package manager both come to mind. I read them casually and found them very easy to grasp.

It’s the default package manager used by Void Linux. It’s praised for being fast and reliable. more info

And here is the commit removing all references to the old name in xbps https://github.com/void-linux/xbps/commit/ba296b8e2c30f151417f0f0daa935653aacd3238

So for context, I'm attempting to port the xbps to another distro that isn't Void Linux using the instructions over at https://github.com/void-linux/xbps.

The workaround before the libXft upstream was corrected was to install (or manually patch the fixes from) libXft-bgra.

I've attempted to patch libXft with libxft-bgra -> https://github.com/uditkarode/libxft-bgra I've executed the make install portion, how can I now replace the libXft with the libXft-bgra? When I try to: xbps-remove libXft I get: libXft-2.3.4_1 in transaction breaks installed pkg \libXft-devel-2.3.4_1 ~... pango-xft ~...sxiv-26_1` and many other dependencies. When I add them to my xbps-remove command, eventually even xorg would need to be removed.

Your crashes might be due to a problem in libxft, there is a patched version that manages to render the emojis correctly.

use this

not really sure but maybe something to do with https://github.com/uditkarode/libxft-bgra

git clone https://github.com/uditkarode/libxft-bgra cd libxft-bgra sh autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man

Did you get this working? I've installed the Noto Color Emoji, removed the lines that avoid dmenu to crash, cloned the repo https://github.com/uditkarode/libxft-bgra , compiled it, but still not working.