Freedom Issue #3224
your-freedom and asp are in conflict
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Description
It seems your-freedom (20220125-1) and asp (0.5.1-1.5) are in conflict on my i686 machine. What is strange is that I've had asp installed since 2021-11-05 but only now the apparent conflict is detected. In addition, asp is not listed in the 'Conflicts With' field of your-freedom on executing
sudo pacman -Qi your-freedom
However, I do see it listed in the 'Conflicts With' field for your-freedom-20220403-1. I presume it is that version not yet installed that pacman uses to print the conflict message. If asp is now non-free shouldn't it be removed from the repositories?
History
Updated by bill-auger about 2 years ago
- Related to Bug #3216: some blacklisted packages not filtered added
Updated by bill-auger about 2 years ago
- Related to deleted (Bug #3216: some blacklisted packages not filtered)
Updated by bill-auger about 2 years ago
asp was added to the blacklist this week #1755 - the conflict is in the new 'your-freedom' package - `pacman -Syi your-freedom` would reveal the conflict declaration, before installing the new package
anyone affected by this, will need to remove 'asp' or 'your-freedom' - "tough love" - sorry :)
if anyone needs arch PKGBUILDs; they can all be gotten from github - there is a plan to integrate git into octopi, to make octopi something like an AUR helper #1035 - if that is done, it would restore some of the convenience of 'asp' (probably the primary one that people use asp for: circumventing 'your-freedom', to keep a blacklisted package installed and up-to-date); but parabola could provide that convenience feature, in that way, within the FSDG
Updated by doolio about 2 years ago
Thanks for explaining. I'll look at the blacklist first in future to avoid raising unnecessary BRs. I had installed asp in an attempt to install Nxyt but was ultimately unsuccessful.
Updated by gap about 2 years ago
What's Nxyt? I couldn't find it on the blacklist or in the Arch repos or on a web search.
Updated by doolio about 2 years ago
What's Nxyt?
An Emacs inspired browser https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/. It's in the AUR.
Edit: I just noticed I misspelled it in my original post.