CachyOS / CachyOS/distribution

[Bug]: noctalia-qt gets installed even without installing noctalia

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Description

### Kernel

7.1.5-1-cachyos

### Desktop Environment / Window Manager

Hyprland

### CPU

Intel I7 12650h

### GPU / Driver

Nvidia RTX 3070

### Description

I installed cachyos plus hypland but unchecked the noctalia option. Now i proceeded to install End_4's illogical impulse and was experiencing lag. Quickshell's widgets were laggy, not knowing what the problem was I searched for hours to no avail. I deleted illogical impulse and installed caelestia just to see the shell fails to run. Turns out because of cachyos, any package that tries to install quickshell will get the noctalia-qt fork instead of the actual quickshell. This will cause weird behaviors, silent failures and bugs. I blieve cachyos must not replace the actual package with a fork or atleast it shouldn't do it if I didn't install Noctalia while installing cachyos. I don't want to remove the entire repo just for this package

### Steps to Reproduce

Just try installing quickshell-git with yay and you will get noctalia-qs

### Expected Behavior

I expect to get upsteam quickshell.

### Actual Behavior

You will get noctalia-qt

### Logs / Error Messages

-

### Additional Context

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue by installing quickshell-git with yay and verify whether noctalia-qs or noctalia-qt is selected. Inspect the CachyOS package and repository metadata that causes this substitution, then confirm that an upstream quickshell package is selected unless Noctalia was explicitly installed.

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Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

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