> I tried to use g-golf on Guix recently, and gave up, because while Guix’ > guile-g-golf depends on glib@2.73.3, Guix’ gtk (GTK4) and gtk+ (GTK3, > GTK2) depend on glib@2.72.3. In other words, I believe that currently, > g-golf cannot be used with gtk in Guix. Upgrading gtk’s glib in the > Guix source code caused issues with other software (that I’m sure > someone someday will fix), though I do not remember exactly. Using > Fedora’s GTK with Guix’ might be possible with tricks, but normally the > software in Guix is patched to make it use only software from Guix.
Yeah, guile-gi had the same problem on Guix. Working around it is hard. I made a patchset where I linked GLib at runtime, but that created other problems. No easy answers -Mike Gran
