This reverts commits:
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e994d4535270b233c4ed5c62e0055fe20c9ab1c6
eb20dec144765d255928fb3e0df960b09af5904d
ebec0dd359eb3a3dc5dbf8ac533a7d89cfc72267
which wer accidentally pushed to master instead of a branch
There is (at most) a single GType that is instantiable and a
prerequisite for an interface. This function returns that type.
This type is necessary in particular when dealing with GValues because a
GValue contains an instance of a type.
