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From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:40:34
Message-Id: 20100208223957.01b27b61@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags by Christian Faulhammer
1 On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:11:31 +0100
2 Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> wrote:
3 > Your proposal does not look to appealing to me. What about people
4 > trying to keep "pollution" down and avoid one or the other toolkit?
5
6 Some packages don't use a USE flag to pull those in, since the toolkit
7 dependency isn't optional for those package, so disabling a USE flag
8 wouldn't help there. Instead you would package.mask the toolkit
9 dependencies (=x11-libs/gtk+-1.2* for one).
10
11
12 Regards,
13 jer