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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: bug#27467: Xfce broken,
	because it propagates two different versions of gtk+
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:12:17 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 27467-done@debbugs.gnu.org

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@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.

--
Ricardo

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