Package request: fastfetch

[Nathan-MV]

Package name

fastfetch

Package homepage

https://github.com/LinusDierheimer/fastfetch

Description

fastfetch is a neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying them in a pretty way. It is written in c to achieve much better performance. It also uses mechanisms like multithreading and caching to finish as fast as possible.

Does the requested package meet the quality requirements?

Compiled

Is the requested package released?

Yes

[tranzystorekk]

This is unlikely to be added to void due to quality requirements (see https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/31361).

You can still use the template from my PR if you want 🙂

[hervyqa]

This is unlikely to be added to void due to quality requirements (see #31361).

You can still use the template from my PR if you want slightly_smiling_face

i tried to compile version 1.6.1 in musl, but it failed. like this https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/runs/7547325156?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:1043 @tranzystorek-io

[15/79] Building C object CMakeFiles/libfastfetch.dir/src/common/networking.c.o
FAILED: CMakeFiles/libfastfetch.dir/src/common/networking.c.o 
/usr/bin/cc -DFF_HAVE_DBUS=1 -DFF_HAVE_DCONF=1 -DFF_HAVE_EGL=1 -DFF_HAVE_GIO=1 -DFF_HAVE_GLX=1 -DFF_HAVE_IMAGEMAGICK7=1 -DFF_HAVE_LIBPCI=1 -DFF_HAVE_OPENCL=1 -DFF_HAVE_OSMESA=1 -DFF_HAVE_RPM=1 -DFF_HAVE_SQLITE3=1 -DFF_HAVE_VULKAN=1 -DFF_HAVE_WAYLAND=1 -DFF_HAVE_X11=1 -DFF_HAVE_XCB=1 -DFF_HAVE_XCB_RANDR=1 -DFF_HAVE_XFCONF=1 -DFF_HAVE_XRANDR=1 -DFF_HAVE_ZLIB=1 -I/builddir/fastfetch-1.6.1/build -I/builddir/fastfetch-1.6.1/src -I/usr/include/libmount -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/dconf -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/xfce4/xfconf-0 -I/usr/include/ImageMagick-7 -DNDEBUG -fstack-clash-protection -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -mtune=generic -O2    -fdebug-prefix-map=/builddir/fastfetch-1.6.1=. -Wall -Wextra -Wconversion -flto -fno-fat-lto-objects -std=gnu11 -MD -MT CMakeFiles/libfastfetch.dir/src/common/networking.c.o -MF CMakeFiles/libfastfetch.dir/src/common/networking.c.o.d -o CMakeFiles/libfastfetch.dir/src/common/networking.c.o -c /builddir/fastfetch-1.6.1/src/common/networking.c
/builddir/fastfetch-1.6.1/src/common/networking.c: In function 'ffNetworkingGetHttp':
/builddir/fastfetch-1.6.1/src/common/networking.c:29:24: error: storage size of 'timev' isn't known
   29 |         struct timeval timev;
      |                        ^~~~~
/builddir/fastfetch-1.6.1/src/common/networking.c:29:24: warning: unused variable 'timev' [-Wunused-variable]
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
=> ERROR: fastfetch-1.6.1_1: do_build: '${make_cmd} ${makejobs} ${make_build_args} ${make_build_target}' exited with 1
=> ERROR:   in do_build() at common/build-style/cmake.sh:85
xbps-rindex: cannot read repository data: No such file or directory

[tranzystorekk]

@hervyqa there's a musl incompatibility for older 32bit time structs, seems this should be addressed upstream

[LinusDierheimer]

Author of fastfetch here, just discovered this issue.

1.6.2 and higher does compile with musl now.

Also i wouldn't consider fastfetch a simple clone of neofetch, as it has features neofetch is lacking. It is also better in detecting some things. And mainly it is a lot faster, for example putting it in .bashrc (or similar) is much more sane than using neofetch for that, which would noticeable impact shell start time.

[brian6932]

Any chance of this getting revived?

[Bnyro]

I think that adding this package should be reconsidered due to the fact that neofetch (which seems to be the only real alternative that's currently in the repositories) is unmaintained for 3 years and additionally got archived some days ago.

Neofetch will no longer work on compatibility with anything coming to the Linux world in the future and might be a potential stability issue.

[hervyqa]

I think PR #38310 should be reopened.