758440 – gui-wm/wayfire should not depend on higher versions of gui-libs/wlroots

Bug 758440 - gui-wm/wayfire should not depend on higher versions of gui-libs/wlroots

Summary: gui-wm/wayfire should not depend on higher versions of gui-libs/wlroots

Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Reported:	2020-12-04 20:25 UTC by bugs.gentoo
Modified:	2023-02-13 00:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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.