* Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > > > It mixes up diffent things to one and just introduces new > > problems instead of solving anything. I could live with that, > > if it's for supporting different ABIs, but it obviously isn't. > > > > No?
In this case not - it's used to mix up two different packages. <snip> > > gtk1 and gtk2 are completely different packages, they're not > > compatible. So why should they be one package ? Just because > > they share some ideas and the name ?! > > Because gtk-2.xx is originated from gtk+-1.2.xx and you still > have a common set of widget API ? The APIs are incompatible. > > For example, there are lots of packages requiring gtk1, other > > gtk2. As long as dependencies don't cope the slot cleanly, > > slotting is utterly useless. > > gtk-1 is deprecated, it will disappear sooner or later. Maybe, maybe not. That will take some time until all packages are rewritten from gtk1 to gtk2. BTW: an "problem will go away by itself sooner or later" isn't actually an good argumentation for such kind of problems. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
