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On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:40:50 +0100 |
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> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:33:47 +0200 |
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>> Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > Well the problem is simple, we need to ship webkit with gtk2 and |
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>> > gtk3 support. This is needed because gentoo has gtk2 based |
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>> > desktop/apps and because we want to ship gnome3 for example. |
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>> > |
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>> > Cool thing is that webkit supports being built with each toolkit |
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>> > without conflicting with the build from the other toolkit hence we |
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>> > ended up using SLOTS. |
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>> You could just have gtk2 and gtk3 use flags in the ebuild, use |
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>> REQUIRED_USE to ensure that at least one is enabled, and build things |
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>> twice in the ebuild if necessary. |
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> Ah, so because a few paludis users may be building an additional |
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> variant of webkit-gtk unnecessarily, we should force all Gentoo users |
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> to randomly rebuild 1-2 variants depending on how soon they're going to |
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> get the USE correctly. |
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Let's all agree that the current solution is less than ideal and could |
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use improvement. I have several Gentoo & Portage only desktops and I |
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find myself annoyed with webkit-gtk and its revisions and rebuilds. |
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Doug Goldstein |
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