Re: [gentoo-dev] xchat's use of local USE flag xchatnogtk

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 06/04/2004-20:54:30(+0000): Jason Huebel types
> Andrew Ross wrote:
> | Does anyone know why net-irc/xchat uses the local USE flag xchatnogtk
> | instead of looking at the global flag gtk?
> |
> |>From use.local.desc:
> | net-irc/xchat:xchatnogtk - Disables building the GTK front end to XChat
> |
> |>From use.desc:
> | gtk - Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
> |
> | Seems like xchatnogtk is simply duplicating the intended effect of -gtk
>
> Well, if you tie xchat to the global gtk USE flag, someone who installs
> xchat may wonder why it isn't working for them when they don't have gtk
> in their USE flags.  Has anyone actually taken a look at xchat-text... UGH.
>
> I for one don't have gtk in my USE flags (I prefer KDE/Qt), but I use
> the gtk interface for XChat.  The default interface that most people
> expect when installing xchat is the GTK interface, not text.  Maybe a
> better choice would be to have an "xchattextonly" USE flag or something
> similar.

That's what per-package USE flags are for. It doesn't make any sense to create
extra local use flags, when the functionality is already there. Other examples include:

net-analyzer/mtr
sys-devel/distcc

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