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Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> Oh hell, this can't be serious ! |
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It is. |
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> It mixes up diffent things to one and just introduces new |
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> problems instead of solving anything. I could live with that, |
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> if it's for supporting different ABIs, but it obviously isn't. |
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What sort of problems? An example backing up your claims would be very nice. |
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> gtk1 and gtk2 are completely different packages, they're not |
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> compatible. So why should they be one package ? Just because |
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> they share some ideas and the name ?! |
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Yes. Why not, after all? |
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> For example, there are lots of packages requiring gtk1, other |
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> gtk2. As long as dependencies don't cope the slot cleanly, |
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> slotting is utterly useless. |
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=x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* |
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>x11-libs/gtk+-2 |
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do a decent job. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Developer |
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