[SOLVED] GTK+ with -X causing issues for Wayland application

[r7l]

Installing x11-libs/gtk+ with USE="-X", will lead to issues with applications like gui-apps/nwg-dock-hyprland (from Guru):

[Hu]

It seems reasonable to me that USE=-X would remove that header. However, I think the guru package ought to depend on x11-libs/gtk+[X] so that Portage insists that you set USE=X before merging the guru package. Alternatively, perhaps the guru package needs to pass some configure option to nwg-dock-hyprland to instruct it not to build X11-specific logic.

[eschwartz]

Hu is correct, this is just a GURU package having an under-specified dependency.

The project in question appears to be written in golang, and also involves hyprland, both good reasons for me not to want to spend any more time thinking about this package. But in general, you'll find I've recently fixed a lot of packages to more clearly define which GDK windowing backends they depend on and enforce those constraints via portage dependencies. There's no good reason to get a compilation failure when portage could print a solver error instead and tell you which USE flags you need to set to get a successfully compiled package.

[pietinger]

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[r7l]

Thanks allot for your replies. Never dealt with GDK before. So i wasn't sure what should be expected.

[CooSee]

using almost pure Hyprland (hyprdots) with no X at all, but some packages still need this USE flag:

eix --only-names --installed-with-use X