bug#27467: Xfce broken, because it propagates two different versions of gtk+

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> I just tried to update my GuixSD system to commit
>>> c57b56722f6c167c5a285f47802047de85a356ae on master.  "guix system build"
>>> failed with the following error:
>>>
>>> guix system: error: profile contains conflicting entries for gtk+:out
>>> guix system: error:   first entry: address@hidden:out 
>>> /gnu/store/901ify6fr2zlr2y2acpvlqr8lygmwj98-gtk+-2.24.31
>>> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
>>> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
>>> guix system: error:   second entry: address@hidden:out 
>>> /gnu/store/fhqaljm8cf78irhqjbrm8n0ri1k2cznm-gtk+-3.22.15
>>> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
>>> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
>>> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
>>
>> I just tried and Exo builds fine with GTK+3, so I would think this
>> reference to GTK+2 was a mistake.  Can you check if it works fine for
>> you with this change?
>
> After changing Exo to use Gtk+3, I get this:
>
> guix system: error: profile contains conflicting entries for gtk+:out
> guix system: error:   first entry: address@hidden:out 
> /gnu/store/0m9hpckvamd048zgsrhx1dx2s5hrg1qk-gtk+-2.24.31
> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
> guix system: error:   second entry: address@hidden:out 
> /gnu/store/hc090rjjka3r9spvzl7yn5hcc2xgrgdh-gtk+-3.22.15
> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden
> guix system: error:    ... propagated from address@hidden

libxfce4ui propagates both address@hidden and address@hidden  There is no 
conflict
between these two versions of gtk, because they are installed into
separate sub-directories under $prefix/lib.

How should we handle exceptions like this?  Should packages get a new
property that would allow them to specify that they do not conflict with
a certain variant?

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Ricardo

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