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Well, after checking, if we do not copy the whole thing to /usr/lib we don't get:

• locales
• some required libraries that are built-in
• some soname libraries
• more

The list of files generated actually are https://paste.rs/2uml1.txt

The right thing here is to just let it build as it's actually, remove electron from the dependencies and that's it. Even if we do something like discord_arch_electron, we need to add a fixed electron version for the package. Dropping the electron dependency for now.

@picokan packages are meant to build in a clean chroot environment (which was not happening because a clean chroot environment doesn't have any electron right there, and it will fail if the user didn't had any electron version installed on the machine too), not the user-specific environment, so we need to add a defined electron version in there, which is the system's electron. If you need, you can just update your PKGBUILD locally and add electron27 to the dependencies.

I will check the binary that's being copied.

Also, why is the whole resources folder getting copied to /usr/lib? Installing there all of the unneeded files from compiling vesktop, including a 177MB binary that has electron embedded, defeats the point of using a system electron in the first place.

@Edu4rdSHL The way I had it before was so you could install vesktop using any electron version you had on your system. Just using /usr/lib/electron is cleaner sure, but I just tried and couldn't install this package with electron27.

@EinfxchFinn, lets the user manage that. Now, you can add the flags to ~/.config/vesktop-flags.conf and they will be readed from there.

I just modified the PKGBUILD to always pick the latest electron using the convenient symlink from /usr/lib/electron, and, also dinamically putting the line before the "linux" occurrence so that we don't have to change the line number everytime.

Could you add --ozone-platform-hint=auto to the Exec variable in the .desktop file so that vesktop runs natively on wayland and not through xwayland? See: https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop/issues/342

    #grabbin path for an installed electron
    #any ideas for a better way of doing this are welcome

Add electron to depends. Then it will be at /usr/lib/electron. Check /usr/lib/electron/version for the version number.

@Edu4rdSHL Sure, I can even just give you maintainership of this package. I only created it because the -git package did not use system electron.

@picokan, just to help you maintain it and improve some things, nothing in special. I already maintain several packages, I would like to help with this one which I use day to day.