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Description:

libxcvt is a library providing a standalone version of the X server
implementation of the VESA CVT standard timing modelines generator.

libxcvt also provides a standalone version of the command line tool
cvt copied from the Xorg implementation and is meant to be a direct
replacement to the version provided by the Xorg server.

Development versions of xserver and xwayland rely on libxcvt, so
-git packages need libxcvt now. There is already a released version,
and a package in the AUR.

However, as xorg-server installs cvt files, it conflicts with
libxcvt. I suggest we:
- migrate libxcvt from the AUR to the stable repository (the library
and tool were simply extracted from xserver sources);
- mark libxcvt as a dependency of xorg-xserver and xorg-xwayland if
needed;
- update xorg-xserver PKGBUILD to not install cvt files and let them
to libxcvt, as done in this patch for xorg-xserver-git.

My use-case exactly is that I want a stable xorg-xserver for ABI
compatibility with the GPU driver, but I also want a -git xwayland
and Wayland compositor. I need to be able to switch between them.

Thanks.

Additional info:
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/637
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/637#note_1050278
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxcvt
- https://gist.github.com/MisterDA/8f5124dd5846c57195894eb69b480960
- https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libxcvt