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#27467
Xfce broken, because it propagates two different versions of gtk+
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Reported by: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 23:48:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #37 received at 27467-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Hi,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 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’.
Yes, that’s better. I pushed two commits:
gnu: libxfce4ui: Do not propagate gtk+-2.
(b8d3a000efca885180277358caa3c4fe604168a5)
gnu: xfce: Build union instead of propagating inputs.
(c860d6ef235b47ec8181fbf390e0b42fbc95dcfe)
With these two commits I can install xfce without problems.
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Ricardo
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