Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:45:09 +0200
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
> Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 14:40 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit :
> > I'd like to know why using USE flags until a nicer solution is
> > available
> > is sufficiently terrible that it warrants a hackaround.
>
> remember qt3/qt4, gtk/gtk2. We want to avoid repeating these
> "mistakes" hence the guidelines already exposed back when we
> introduced gtk3 to the tree.

We didn't have REQUIRED_USE or use dependencies back then. We do now.

> As you may have noticed, this is still the solution applied for things
> hard to split or slot like gtk-vnc or avahi but we didn't see the need
> to have such USE flags when the library was so easily slottable.

Again, REQUIRED_USE.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh