Subject: Re: bug#27467: Xfce broken, because it propagates two different versions of gtk+

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:45:49 +0200

Hi!

Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> What do you think of the attached patches?  The first makes libxfce4ui
> only propagate the latest gtk+, so I added gtk+-2 where needed.  The
> second removes “exo” from the “xfce” meta-package, because it doesn’t
> seem needed.  “exo” propagates “gtk+-2”, so it would be hard to prevent
> the conflict otherwise.
>
> These patches are only a temporary fix until we can find a way to mark
> certain conflicts as unproblematic.

These patches seem reasonable to me.

Another option (perhaps slightly less intrusive) would be to implement
the ‘xfce’ meta-package using ‘union-build’ instead of
‘propagated-inputs’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.