Max Verevkin

`pacman -Fy` syncs "file database", i.e. which file is owned by which package. It is unrelated with `pacman -Sy`. You can use pacman/view updates/etc without ever running `pacman -Fy`.

> I mean, the /var/lib/pacman/sync/ is updated by the systemd timer/service, not pacman block of i3status-rust You don't need any updates in `/var/lib/pacman/` for pacman block to work.

We used to create a per-user directory, which was removed in 463deca1ebfd5b65ca304b0ffba54e31d7793338. May need to revert that.

This should work: ```toml [[block]] block = "battery" format = "$percentage $time|N/A" device = "DisplayDevice" driver = "upower" ``` The problem was that `$time` was _after_ `|`. This means that...

@GladOSkar > But we could also reintroduce that function if it's worth the extra effort We can reintroduce it but we will lose "short text" functionality for some blocks that...

Closing due to lack of activity

> Packaging this is being painful because there's plenty of dependencies that just don't exist yet in Debian. Wow, you mean in Debian you have to package every rust dependency?...

> suggested solution is that we refactor nl80211 so it uses the newest neli [Already did that](https://github.com/MaxVerevkin/nl80211) :) Although it has a few breaking changes and the owner of the...

By the way @cfsmp3, what's the point of https://crates.io/crates/i3status-rs? Users still can't just `cargo install` (cargo is unable to install arbitrary files).

Temporarily, you can use the new `if_command` configuration option to disable your battery block when run on desktop (added in #1415).