Bug 758440

Summary:	gui-wm/wayfire should not depend on higher versions of gui-libs/wlroots
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	bugs.gentoo
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description bugs.gentoo 2020-12-04 20:25:38 UTC

By accident I had gui-libs/wlroots-0.12 installed and tried to compile gui-wm/wayfire-0.5.0, which failed.  So gui-wm/wayfire should not depend >= on gui-libs/wlroots, but stick to "major" version.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Aisha Tammy 2020-12-16 02:25:36 UTC

This is unfortunately not going to be possible.
The ecosystem is heavily evolving and at a very fast pace.
If we try to do version restrictions everywhere, its going to be unmanageable very fast. Also the fact that different window managers all need differing versions of wlroots makes it very hard for us to keep everything sane.
In general, when dealing with wayland, I'd suggest asking the upstream authors about compatible versions.