NVidia 340xx: Problems with update 09/08/2020 and workaround
Today’s upgrades wouldn’t work: the cuda package insisted on nvidia-450xx, and there were a number of conflicts.
Workaround:
I added IgnorePkg = cuda to /etc/pacman.conf , pinning the package to its current version. Thereafter things ran smoothly, but of course that package is now frozen in time.
I’m not exactly happy about nvidia-340xx being deprecated, and I kind of do see more problems of this kind looming on the horizon.