[Gambas-user] Packaging problems with X11 and Wayland

[Laurent Carlier]

Le mercredi 21 avril 2021, 19:28:07 CEST Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I think that the problem with the current packaging and 'gb.desktop' is
> that when using a GUI component or gb.desktop, you need either X11 or
> wayland support.
> 
> But package manager (afaik) can't handle that. Either you create no
> dependency, and you have to install the x11 or wayland packages
> manually, either you created dependencies on both x11 and wayland, and
> it's idiot, as now you are force to install unneeded packages.
> 
> So I think a part of the solution would be creating two meta-packages:
> 'gambas3-x11-support' and 'gambas3-wayland-support' that would install
> all x11 or wayland related packages ('gb.qt5', 'gb.gtk3' and
> 'gb.desktop' have such packages).
> 
> What do you think?

Resolved in Archlinux; gambas3-gb-desktop will depend on gambas3-gb-desktop-
driver (?)  and gambas3-gb-desktop-x11 and gambas3-gb-desktop
-wayland will provide gambas3-gb-desktop-driver

Like that when installing gambas3-gb-desktop you'll have to install (at least) 
one of them.

Regards.
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