On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 08:06 -0400, Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
> What are the reasons for building or not building one, two or three 
> versions?

Short version, they're three versions of the same package with
incompatible API - first the migration from Gtk+ 2 to 3, then some
further changes required to properly support some new functionality for
Webkit2.

Presumably the first two will die off in time, but for now, not
everything has been ported - some apps are still Gtk+ 2, while others
are Gtk+ 3 but haven't been ported to the relatively new WebKit 2...

As to which one to build - there's no reason to build any of them,
unless something else you're building depends on it. And in that case,
build the one that the package needs.

Simon.

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