On Sunday 19 August 2012 09:04:23 Brett Viren wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Daniel Fetchinson > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > What made me a bit worried is that in order to compile sawfish I need > > librep and rep-gtk. But this is gtk2 I guess. And since gnome 3 uses > > (I guess) gtk3 I was worried whether I can install gtk2 alongside > > gtk3. Or this is no problem? Only gnome 3 alongside gnome 2 is > > problematic? > > > > Or should I just install sawfish from the fedora 17 repo which will > > automatically pull gtk2? > > Gtk is independent from Gnome (but not vice versa) so that aspect is > not a problem. You may only be able to install the "devel" packages > for either gtk2 or gtk3 and not both. This may not be a problem for > you. If it is, you should be able to just install one or the other > when you need them. > > This is from Debian experience but I guess RH based systems should > behave similarly. > > > And will MATE have these applications like gnome-power-manager, > > gnome-settings-daemon, etc? That would be the best I guess. > > I've given up on Gnome, in bulk form, and moved to LXDE. I still run > some Gnome'ish things individually and without problems. For example, > network manager or gpointer-device-settings. > > -Brett.
On Debian you can install both -devel packages. You won't have any problem here. Regards
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