Closed bpinto closed 7 years ago
Actually, that package is a VTE fork called vte-ng, and it's a runtime dependency for termite (a nice terminal for sway/i3/awesome window managers); unfortunately, upstream decided to maintain the name and API/ABI of the original VTE, so I had no other choice than to package it in the same way as the standard VTE library.
Is it causing conflicts, or symbols collisions, on your Gentoo set-ups? If yes, I can try to package VTE-ng as a slotted library to avoid (most of) them.
I see, I thought it could be the case but I wasn't sure, I'm having this issue:
$ emerge --ask --changed-use --deep @world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:
x11-libs/vte:2.91
(x11-libs/vte-0.46.1:2.91/2.91::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with
=x11-libs/vte-0.46.0-r666:2.91 required by (x11-terms/termite-12:0/0::ineluctable-overlay, installed)
^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
Nothing to merge; quitting.
That conflict is unfortunate; well then, a new slotted x11-libs/vtg-ng
will be :)
It will take some time to complete the transition though, since I need to heavily patch the build scripts for x11-terms/termite
.
:sweat_smile: Thanks for the hard work!
There is a newer VTE version on gentoo default overlay?