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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:47:03
Message-Id: CADqQcK4paFKX8-Kv-rZSZK=H8STfHWeGBgUSnJJnNsq-AMZbJw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
2 <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:54:21 -0400
4 > Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o> wrote:
5 >> For libraries, if possible, try splitting gtk2 and gtk3 support into
6 >> different slots (see net-libs/webkit-gtk for an example; the
7 >> gtk2-based versions have -r2xx revision numbers and go in slot 2,
8 >> while the gtk3-based versions have -r3xx revision numbers and go in
9 >> slot 3).
10 >
11 > That is not what revisions are for. If you can't solve a problem
12 > properly using existing mechanisms, ask for new ones.
13 >
14
15 It's a simple workaround for the lack of proper ebuild namespacing on
16 the basis of slots.
17
18 So, till we have that, this works pretty well. :)
19
20 --
21 ~Nirbheek Chauhan
22
23 Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>