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From: Fannys <marinus.savoritias@oezhayl.dev>
To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ package question
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 21:58:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B4BA85-8F64-4C59-805D-4132EEFB5477@pretty.Easy.privacy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <WGSIYOWH.EBTPA7Z7.A63IDI2E@3MU6WFJH.RB7ZNYWL.A5KNPSSX>

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On May 29, 2021 8:28:42 PM UTC, Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>I just noticed that the package x11-libs/gtk+ has slots 2 and 3  
>(nothing new there) however, it seems that version 4 has a totally new 
>
>package gui-libs/gtk with only slot 0 (no explicit slot listed) with  
>currently ~4.2.0 and 4.2.1 versions available.  I've done a quick  
>search through the announce and dev mailing lists, and not found  
>anything relevant.  Is this an intentional switch?  I don't think there
> 
>is much yet that uses version 4, but is there any planned migration  
>path?
>
>Have I missed something?
>
>Thanks for any info.
>
>Jack

For the part of the category change it is to my uderstanding that gentoo is slowly moving from x11 style categories to gui-* .
Partly due to the wayland starting to become used more. I noticed with sway first on that.
As for the slot part somebody more knowledgeable than me can chime in.

Regards,
Marinus

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-29 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-29 20:28 [gentoo-user] gtk+ package question Jack
2021-05-29 21:58 ` Fannys [this message]
2021-05-29 22:27   ` Jack
2021-06-01 11:40 ` Mart Raudsepp
2021-06-01 18:11   ` [gentoo-user] [Solved] " Jack

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