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From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ATTENTION! Broken builds ahead
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 23:06:48
Message-Id: 20031123000636.3e4f84ac.spider@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ATTENTION! Broken builds ahead by Mike Frysinger
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2 On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:46:59 -0500
3 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
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7 > why not change ?
8 > as you say, it's always been confusing and it still is confusing ...
9 > i know every single ebuild i've ever produced/maintained uses the
10 > logic gtk==gtk1 and gtk2==gtk2. i've made a lot of ebuilds ;)
11 >
12 > perhaps it isnt as costly as it may seem to move to a gtk1 and a gtk2
13 > USE flag system ...
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15 My super-secret plan is this:
16 make gtk2 USE flag default.
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19 wait 3 months
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21 deprecate gtk2 USE flag, add "gtk-classic" or "deprecated-and-broken"
22 USE flag, and use that for cases where both are avaiable to select the
23 old gtk+-1.2 interface.
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25 Ain't It much better? ;)
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27 //Spider
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