[Gambas-user] Packaging problems with X11 and Wayland

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 21/04/2021 à 20:09, Laurent Carlier a écrit :
> 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.
> 

Yep. I must learn how to do that with debian packages.

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Benoît Minisini