[Buildroot] [PATCH 21/23] package/xscreensaver: remove package
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Thu Sep 11 07:29:28 UTC 2025
Hello Nicolas,
On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:27:21 +0200
Nicolas Cavallari <Nicolas.Cavallari at green-communications.fr> wrote:
> On 10/09/2025 23:32, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot wrote:
> > As we're about to remove libgtk2, we must remove xscreensaver as it
> > depends on libgtk2.
>
> The latest version (6.12) on https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/ depends on gtk3.
> I noticed it because the version I have on Debian (6.09) already depends on gtk3.
Thanks for the notice! However, I'm personally not that interested in
xscreensaver, so unless someone steps up to send a patch that updates
xscreensaver so that it works with gtk3, removing it will be the only
option.
Thomas
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