Ühel kenal päeval, L, 29.05.2021 kell 16:28, kirjutas Jack: > 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.
They are in SLOT="4" > 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? Yes, this is an intentional plan from me, executed by others that had the time available for it. There were IRC talks and probably some comments on the relevant bugs. * I consider it too disruptive to package move everything from x11- libs/gtk+ to gui-libs/gtk, everyone would need to adapt to it in overlays, etc * SLOTs are really nothing more than keeping parallel-installable packages under the same name, instead of having separate packages like libgtk2, libgtk3, etc * New parallel-installable version was a good time to make the switch, with the old slots left behind in x11-libs until they naturally fall out of use * It is increasingly less used with X11, and is still in x11-libs due to the disruption it would cause to move the existing SLOTs (however gtk2 is really X11-only) * Upstream renamed the project from GTK+ to GTK in the gtk4 development phase * Separate packages are just as well parallel-installable as separate SLOTs So given the above, it felt best to just have the new SLOT under new package name and not force everyone to do busywork to rename things for the old slots. Maybe we can move them over in a couple years without extensive overlay breakages, when most things are using GTK4, GTK2 has been last rited and removed and GTK3 is in a similar state of usage like GTK2 is today, or just leave it be and have it eventually disappear. Mart
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