Bug 11915

Summary:	gtk-engines-mist
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	alexander j pierce <miaomx5>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) <leonardop>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description alexander j pierce 2002-12-10 15:14:13 UTC

Currently, the gtk-engines eclass determines which gtk+ library is installed
(slot 1 or 2) then removes the other engine and theme.  However, most
installations currently have both GTK+ 1.2.x and GTK+ 2.x applications
installed, and would be nice if there was an easy way to have it install both,
aside from editing the eclass.

Comment 1 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-11 01:43:33 UTC

Some thoughts on this issue:

Technically, the SLOT variable doesn't reflect the gtk+ library installed on
your system (it is used for this purpose on the eclass, kind of, but it's not
the meaning of SLOT). It's just a convenient way to let Portage install more
than one version of a certain package. You can read more about the SLOT variable
in the Portage Manual: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml

As you may hint from this, the idea is that, for those packages that include
both GTK-1 and GTK-2 engines/themes, there will be only one package in Portage,
but with (at least) two different versions. You can have both versions of the
same engine installed at the same time. As an example, for the package you
mention (gtk-engines-mist), those will be gtk-engines-mist-0.8-r1 and
gtk-engines-mist-0.8-r2.

So, emerging those two versions will let you have installed the GTK-1 and GTK-2
flavors of the engine. You don't need to edit the eclass, just emerge those two
versions.

Note that there is a convenient package that provides you with all the available
theme engines (for both GTK-1 and GTK-2): gtk-themes.

If you want GTK-2 themes/engines, all you need to do is:

  emerge gtk-themes

And if you want GTK-1 themes/engines, this is what you should do:

  emerge =gtk-themes-1*


Granted, this is a bit awkward and it's not really obvious when a package
provides more than one SLOT. I think this is more of a Portage thing, and
hopefully it will be different in the future.

Please let me know if I missed your point and you think this is still a bug.