[Gambas-user] Packaging problems with X11 and Wayland

[PICCORO McKAY Lenz]

i seen this before with GUI modules (gtk/qt) and i now see that you guys
never taking in considerations migrations ..

what about that? noted in debian the mantainers made right transitional
packages that permits good right depends

El mié, 21 de abr. de 2021 a la(s) 13:29, Benoît Minisini (g4mba5 at gmail.com)
escribió:

> 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?
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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