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can reproduce aswell, the new fontconfig breaks the default font, such that 'Apple Color Emoji' is my default font

With the new fontconfig, all fonts on my system become emoji.

Added the fontconfig file 👍🏻

comment from AUR/noto-fonts-emoji-apple

Dear users, please kindly switch to ttf-apple-emoji, which provides a more up-to-date version of Google Noto Color Emoji Font with Apple emoji symbols, and is still actively maintained.

AUR/noto-fonts-emoji-apple is discontinued, and @timescam's repo for it is archived.

Also, the latter's source is devoid of any license, whereas ttf-apple-emoji's source readme cites the relevant open-source licenses.

And please add the fontconf file mentioned by @Ykkzde in 2020 to address fallbacks.

Please declare license=('OFL'), and add this LICENSE file to source, and install it within package():

# Install LICENSE
install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"

@cwtb I had the same problem, rebuilding after deleting cache fixed it for me.

comment from AUR/noto-fonts-emoji-apple

Also please kindly add makedepends=('git') as that is required for getting the source repo.

comment from AUR/noto-fonts-emoji-apple

Please kindly use fixed git commit as source. Otherwise modern AUR helpers like yay and paru think it's a '-git' VCS package and try to update it upon every git commit, and then fail to do so if the pkgver didn't change.

Also, the versioning you've introduced is not proper; Pacman won't update the package:

==> Sources are ready.
noto-fonts-emoji-apple-15.4-3: parsing pkg list...
:: noto-fonts-emoji-apple-15.4-3 is up to date -- skipping build
loading packages...
warning: noto-fonts-emoji-apple-15.4_beta-2 is up to date -- reinstalling

Reason: 15.4_beta-2 > 15.4-3 as far as Pacman is concerned.

Solution: add epoch=1 to PKGBUILD (in the beginning section defining the package parameters like pkgver).

And next time please kindly eliminate '-' or '_' or any other characters before alpha/beta/whatever version suffices.

A proper beta version should look like this: 15.4beta-2. (Notice it's not '_beta'.)

Did the upstream ttf file get updated? I'm getting a failed checksum on the download.

[Aur:1]  ttf-apple-emoji-15.4-1

:: PKGBUILD up to date, Skipping (1/0): ttf-apple-emoji
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: ttf-apple-emoji
==> Making package: ttf-apple-emoji 15.4-1 (Wed 06 Apr 2022 10:55:20 AM EDT)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found AppleColorEmoji.ttf
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    AppleColorEmoji.ttf ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
 -> error downloading sources: ttf-apple-emoji 
         context: exit status 1 


==> Making package: ttf-apple-emoji 15.4-1 (Wed 06 Apr 2022 10:55:21 AM EDT)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found AppleColorEmoji.ttf
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    AppleColorEmoji.ttf ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
 -> error making: ttf-apple-emoji