Where did I pick up these two mutts?

brent

a story in pictures. I'm tired!

ok

ok

third package ^^ is installed. the others are NOT installed. Assume node editor lives in libwebkit-gtk41?
further; brought in 7-20?

sorry for the PITA questions; once one commits to a serious housecleaning there is no looking back🙂

infinitymdm

brent The package that introduced this change turns out to be libgtk-4. Thanks for the helpful screenshots, by the way.

You can see the changes to the installed files here: https://dev.getsol.us/source/libgtk-4/change/master/pspec_x86_64.xml
Note the addition of gtk4-node-editor.

If the menu entry for that is really bothering you, you can probably delete the desktop file at /usr/share/applications/org.gtk.gtk4.NodeEditor.desktop to get rid of it. Of course this won't persist past updates, and eopkg will claim that the package is broken. You'd probably be better off removing it using something like libremenu.

infinitymdm

brent EFL libraries are a solus default package, so I probably shouldn't mess with that, correct?

I don't believe this is true. EFL is a set of libraries including application and GUI toolkits (sort of like GTK and Qt). You should be fine removing it, so long as you don't have any EFL apps installed. Of course, eopkg or software center should warn you if you have other things installed that depend on EFL.

brent

infinitymdm outstanding to know. will try rm tomorrow and see what happens. Might've been part of all that debugging stuff installed discussed above. Thanks for your help with this.

brent

infinitymdm wowsers great info. Will dump the EFL tomorrow.

As for libgtk-4 if fhis is part of Solus-proper then anything part of solus-proper is fine---the menu entry is automatically a non-concern now.
Thanks to you Operation Debris Removal almost safely complete!

brent

Removal of EFL removed Elementary Config.
One down.
Question for the Team: libgtk-4, libgtk-41, and Node Editor ---all three of these are necessary in Solus infrastructure, correct?
If you could kindly answer that then post will be solved. Thank you.

Staudey

libgtk-4 is an important part of the Budgie and GNOME desktops, so you shouldn't remove it. We may see about potentially removing that node-editor though, since it's not really useful for the average person (I'd say without looking much into it)

brent

Staudey my work here is done, then, thank you🙂 .
Kindly marked 'solved.'

Staudey

@brent Update: Finally got to this item on my ToDo list and pushed a change to the unstable repository that moves gtk4-node-editor from the main libgtk-4 package to the libgtk-4-demos subpackage, where it belongs.

brent

Staudey oh yeah---that means that eventually I canrm the gtk node editor package safely?

brent

righteous. thanks for the update

Staudey

brent You don't have to do anything. The gtk4-node-editorbinary will automatically removed from your system as it is no longer part of the (required) libgtk-4 package.

brent

Staudey outstanding