Package Details: waybar-git 0.13.0.r41.g0776e69-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/waybar-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: waybar-git
Description: Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors
Upstream URL: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar
Keywords: bar sway wlroots
Licenses: MIT
Conflicts: waybar
Provides: waybar
Submitter: BlueGone
Maintainer: xiota (Alexays)
Last Packager: xiota
Votes: 38
Popularity: 1.41
First Submitted: 2018-08-09 18:41 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-07-30 20:05 (UTC)

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xiota commented on 2025-07-31 04:11 (UTC)

@ilovemikael I do not include contact info in PKGBUILDs because I do not want to be contacted for packages I no longer maintain. There are many cases where packages can be disowned without ability to remove info. I also prefer not to feed spam bots.

The only maintainers who actually matter are the current ones listed on aurweb. Comaintainers are in parentheses. Commenting or flagging is sufficient to contact them. If there is no response within a reasonable time (over two weeks), you're free to open orphan requests.

I have too many packages. If you want to comaintain, send an email listing packages you're interested in. If while preparing your last comment you didn't already find my address, you unfortunately did not pass the qualifying exam.

ilovemikael commented on 2025-07-30 22:09 (UTC)

Oh, my bad; I mistakenly inferred that your account was an alt or something for Alexis Rouillard as he's listed here (in the script, I see your username on this page) as the sole maintainer of the package, and after Alexis' last git commit (2018-12-17), another author simply named Alex took over until 2024-06-14 without modifying the maintainers heading, so by my heuristics it appears that author was also Alexays.

I don't feel like being a vigilante (and/or annoying, though the latter is probably already the case) so I'm not flagging the package or anything, but it may perhaps be useful to include your contact info in the pkgbuild, as there are no means of communication provided via your AUR account (besides chatting here, of course); if you wish to stay anonymous, at least email-wise (mayhaps another false assumption, but a brisk skim of your hundreds of packages reveals none of your info listed in any of the scripts), it could be handy to at least put your username in the maintainers field and change Alexays' to be listed as a co-maintainer, as this page suggests -- I think it'd help differentiate the two of you and prevent future misunderstandings like mine from occurring.

PS: sorry if I come off as condescending or patronizing, that's not my intent, and I still think appreciation for the hundreds of packages you maintain (many of which I use) is deserved, even if you aren't the original author or developer, so thank you for that in addition to the quick response :).

xiota commented on 2025-07-30 07:57 (UTC)

@ilovemikael Thanks for the software should be directed to Alexays. As far as I can tell, he has been inactive on AUR for quite some time, but that allows more focus on upstream development.

I'll revise the package in upcoming days to add option to build with/without gpsd, similar to treatment of libcava.

ilovemikael commented on 2025-07-30 07:15 (UTC) (edited on 2025-07-30 07:34 (UTC) by ilovemikael)

Hello and thank you @xiota for the terrific software!! =)

Similarly to jzr, I found the gpsd dependency obtrusive (in terms of having a system free of pointless packages); I believe the freedom to pick and choose which system components you wish to keep or eschew is a fundamental tenet of the Unix philosophy, independent of concerns regarding disk space.

I modified this pkgbuild to disable gpsd, but found it irritating to have to manually edit the script each time I update with paru; if I maintained of this package, I'd let gpsd be an optional dep like libcava is, but I am not, so thus I made a fork: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/waybar-minimal-git

Perhaps it should be dubbed waybar-nogps as opposed to -minimal as its basically identical to this besides excluding the GPS daemon (and skimming down some parts which weren't useful to me).

In consideration of the fact you are Waybar's lead developer, I'd have no qualms granting you co-maintainership of the 'fork' in question if you so desire, though I reckon it could soon become obsolescent if you touched up this script a tad bit; I mostly just didn't feel like waiting for a fix, but if you hypothetically were to implement the fork's features in this repo, then I wouldn't mind deleting it for the sake of diminishing AUR entropy.

Many thanks for reading ;3, have a splendid remainder of your day/evening/night!! (depending upon location)

xiota commented on 2025-07-17 21:58 (UTC)

If someone else feels similarly about gpsd, I can add a workaround that would allow it to be excluded. Otherwise, doesn't seem worth the effort because extra/waybar also requires it.

jzr commented on 2025-07-12 11:59 (UTC)

I don't care about space. What I care about is the gpsd package polluting the namespace with 28 binaries in /usr/bin and two .desktop files.

That1Calculator commented on 2025-07-09 20:59 (UTC) (edited on 2025-07-09 20:59 (UTC) by That1Calculator)

How many Arch systems even have a GPS module?

Many modern laptops have GPS. gpsd is 5.2 MiB installed, so I don't think you're going to be missing out on much disk space.

jzr commented on 2025-07-09 20:45 (UTC)

Is the gpsd dependency really necessary? How many Arch systems even have a GPS module? I'd love to try this, but I really don't want to be forced to install useless garbage.

xiota commented on 2025-06-22 17:14 (UTC)

@alba4k I inherited this package with cava disabled. Enabling it requires aur/libcava. I've added an option to use it. Read PKGBUILD to see what variable to set.

@Billli11 Flag alone is sufficient. Edit comments to update information. Delete comments that are no longer relevant.

This is a -git package. Not all commits will be buildable. Only packaging issues or problems upstream is unlikely to fix need to be reported.

Billli11 commented on 2025-06-22 12:28 (UTC)

Build error fixed https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/4219

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