questions about Xfce, gtk ans gentoo

[Maximilian Schleiss]

Sami Samhuri wrote:

>* On Thu Mar-17-2005 at 01:22:42 PM +0100, Maximilian Schleiss said:
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>>Hi all,
>>I am using Xfce on a gentoo distro on a toshiba laptop. The bugfix just 
>>came out in the portage tree, it is still masked but I have a question 
>>about installing it.
>>Should I use the Xfce4 base ebuild or is it better to install the 
>>packages one by one?
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>I see no reason to install the packages 1 by 1 unless you _only_ want
>specific packages. If you want all of Xfce then I would recommend
>'emerge -av xfce4'.
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>>The second question I have regards GTK+. I have version 2.6.2 in Slot 2 
>>and 1.2.10-r11 in Slot 1!?! Is this right?
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>This is correct. Hopefully older GTK applications will convert to GTK2
>soon so we can only have one installed but for now, both are most likely
>required.
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>>Have a nice day in sunny europe.
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>I'll have a nice sunny day in Canada, thanks. :)
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Thank you for the kind answer, and, oups I did not check the world 
weather but here in europe we just came out of a cold period and now 
spring seems to take over its rights...