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

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> 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.
>
> So this is on purpose, right?  Sounds weird no?

It’s not unusual for some GUI libraries to support multiple backends.
It’s a bit weird that this requires propagation, but according to the
comment that’s because of the pkg-config files.

libxfce4ui-1.pc needs propagation of address@hidden, libxfce4ui-2.pc needs
propagation of address@hidden  Maybe we could split that package up, so that
the different variants are provided by separate variants.  Or we could
simply not propagate address@hidden and only add it to packages that actually
use address@hidden

I’m giving this a try right now.

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Ricardo

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