Re: gtk-engines photographed eating children

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Andrew Johnson">
>
>  
>
> > Ok on this I have to ask, why on earth would you have versioned this way
> > to begin with?
> >    
>
> binary packages do not have independent versions from source packages, and
> no one is going to repack all of the themes individually to create fully
> independent source packages.
>
>  
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> > I have no idea how to fix this problem, but I don't see that it has
> > anything to do with the move to gtk-engines except in that it exposed a
> > faulty way of numbering the engines to begin with.
> >    
>
> One or preferably both of the following would help:
>
>  a) Why do we have two packages for themes again? Why can't these all be
>     gnome-themes?
>
>  

Because gtk-engines is not used exclusively by GNOME.

>  b) Versioning gtk-engines with GNOME, as it's no longer maintained by the
>     GTK+ folks.
>  
See above.

-Thomas