Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > It mixes up diffent things to one and just introduces new > problems instead of solving anything. I could live with that, > if it's for supporting different ABIs, but it obviously isn't. >
No? > gtk1 and gtk2 are completely different packages, they're not > compatible. So why should they be one package ? Just because > they share some ideas and the name ?! Because gtk-2.xx is originated from gtk+-1.2.xx and you still have a common set of widget API ? > > For example, there are lots of packages requiring gtk1, other > gtk2. As long as dependencies don't cope the slot cleanly, > slotting is utterly useless. gtk-1 is deprecated, it will disappear sooner or later. -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
