Package request: NvChad

[jaminW55]

Package name

NvChad

Package homepage

https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad

Description

Neovim config written in Lua with a beautiful UI and fast startup

Does the requested package meet the package requirements?

System, Compiled

Is the requested package released?

Yes

[jaminW55]

I've actually almost got this one working. It builds without error, but then does not install. I am not entirely certain where I went wrong and I wonder if maybe I need to include something that changes terminal fonts to nerd fonts.

It was required to force the extraction, as for whatever reason it would not extract.

Please see the below template:

# Template file for 'nvchad'
pkgname=nvchad
version=2.0
revision=1
build_style=fetch
depends="neovim>=0.9.4 xclip"
hostmakedepends="tar"
short_desc="Neovim config written in Lua with a beautiful UI and fast startup"
maintainer="jaminW55 <jaminW55@gmail.me>"
license="GPL-3.0"
homepage="https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad"
distfiles="https://github.com/NvChad/NvChad/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz"
checksum=78334f0bd8ec196a827c14ba9e33d2266833249a1916319d60c2ba7e20d6fba7

do_install() {
    # Force extraction of tarball
    tar -xzf "v${version}.tar.gz" -C "${wrksrc}"

    # Navigate to the directory where the source files are extracted
    cd "${wrksrc}/NvChad-${version}"

    # Create Necessary Directories
    vmkdir /usr/share/nvim/runtime
    vmkdir /usr/share/nvchad

    # Copying necessary files
    vcopy init.lua /usr/share/nvchad
    vcopy lua /usr/share/nvchad
    vcopy .stylua.toml /usr/share/nvchad

    # Copy the same files to nvim runtime directory
    vcopy init.lua /usr/share/nvim/runtime
    vcopy lua /usr/share/nvim/runtime
    vcopy .stylua.toml /usr/share/nvim/runtime
}

post_install() {
    echo "To update NvChad, run 'NvChadUpdate' inside neovim."
}

[classabbyamp]

Does the requested package meet the package requirements?
System, Compiled

this is just a set of neovim configs. it does not (and probably should not) be installed system-wide for most use-cases, and it is not compiled (it's lua).

you should just install it like upstream says to.

[jaminW55]

Both Arch and NixOS have this packaged, so I assumed it may be cleaner to set-up via package.

[classabbyamp]

the AUR is not arch, it's a free-for-all where anyone can make a package for whatever they want

nix packages many things because they can be hard to install with the way nix is structured