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Xfce broken, because it propagates two different versions of gtk+

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, 27467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27467: Xfce broken, because it propagates two different versions of gtk+
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:45:49 +0200

Hi!

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> 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’.

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