[debbugs-tracker] bug#27467: closed (Xfce broken, because it propagates two different versions of gtk+)

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> Xfce broken, because it propagates two different versions of gtk+
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> Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:47:02 -0400
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> I just tried to update my GuixSD system to commit
> c57b56722f6c167c5a285f47802047de85a356ae on master.  "guix system build"
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> 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
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>        Mark
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> Hi,
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> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
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> >> What do you think of the attached patches?  The first makes libxfce4ui
> >> only propagate the latest gtk+, so I added gtk+-2 where needed.  The
> >> second removes “exo” from the “xfce” meta-package, because it doesn’t
> >> seem needed.  “exo” propagates “gtk+-2”, so it would be hard to prevent
> >> the conflict otherwise.
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> >> These patches are only a temporary fix until we can find a way to mark
> >> certain conflicts as unproblematic.
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> > These patches seem reasonable to me.
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> > Another option (perhaps slightly less intrusive) would be to implement
> > the ‘xfce’ meta-package using ‘union-build’ instead of
> > ‘propagated-inputs’.
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> Yes, that’s better.  I pushed two commits:
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>   gnu: libxfce4ui: Do not propagate gtk+-2.
>   (b8d3a000efca885180277358caa3c4fe604168a5)
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>   gnu: xfce: Build union instead of propagating inputs.
>   (c860d6ef235b47ec8181fbf390e0b42fbc95dcfe)
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> With these two commits I can install xfce without problems.
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