From: Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ package question
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 18:27:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <HMRNA74R.7OECGAKD.VKDTSVKD@2TQKQDNM.A47MVDI7.LD326MCE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40B4BA85-8F64-4C59-805D-4132EEFB5477@pretty.Easy.privacy>
On 2021.05.29 17:58, Fannys wrote:
> 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
Makes sense, but I would have expected version 4 to be added as a new
slot, and that action to be separate from the category switch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-29 22:27 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
2021-05-29 22:27 ` Jack [this message]
2021-06-01 11:40 ` Mart Raudsepp
2021-06-01 18:11 ` [gentoo-user] [Solved] " Jack
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