Re: x11/vte packages

["Johnny C. Lam" <jlam%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 11:01:49PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> 
> Presently there are three vte packages delivered under x11: vte-028 (under
> x11/vte), vte029-032 (x11/vte029) and vte-038 (under x11/vte3). As the
> first and the third deliver the same package name with different versions,
> they cannot be installed at the same time (even if their contents do not
> intersect). Some terminal emulators require vte-028, others - vte-038 (I
> haven't found yet one to use vte029). After having installed lxterminal and
> terminator, which use vte-028, I initially couldn't install xfce4-terminal
> and mate-terminal, as they use vte-038. I was able to do so by renaming the
> package delivered by vte3 - as vte3 - and patching the configure scripts
> for the emulators.
> 
> I wonder whether it's worth getting this into pkgsrc, probably not many
> people would want to have all these emulators installed at the same time,
> perhaps it is nice to have terminator along, say, mate-terminal.

If it's reasonable for a user to expect to be able to install all three
(or a subset) of those vte packages at the same time, then it's worth
modifying the packages to allow that.

Please send-pr your changes.

Regards,
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Johnny C. Lam
jlam%NetBSD.org@localhost