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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:40:42
Message-Id: 20100208154018.GA9583@linux1
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Hi all,
2
3 On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:34:08PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
4 > On 02/08/2010 02:11 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
5 > > Hi,
6 > >
7 > > Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>:
8 > >> A Gnome user probably has "X gtk -qt" in make.conf, while a KDE user
9 > >> has "X qt -gtk" in hope to have programs that support both Gtk and Qt
10 > >> being built with the toolkit that is more native to his DE. When a
11 > >> package has a GUI tool that is able to only use one of those
12 > >> toolkits, people who have it disabled in make.conf will get no GUI
13 > >> tool at all even though they have "X" in their USE flags.
14 > >
15 > > Your proposal does not look to appealing to me. What about people
16 > > trying to keep "pollution" down and avoid one or the other toolkit?
17 >
18 > This would mean that we favor one group of people over another :P
19
20 If a package can run in some form without a certain toolkit, why should
21 we force people to install that toolkit with the package? Imho that is
22 bloating their systems unnecessarily.
23
24 William