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

By the way, I checked Bugzilla in case this had already be raised and
addressed.

Also, a small etiquette question resulting from this email:

In future, should queries like this be sent:

1. directly to the maintainer of the package (using the herd email alias
when no specific maintainer is listed in metadata.xml)?

2. to gentoo-dev (since it's ebuild-related)?

3. to gentoo-user (so the devs can continue important discussions on
gentoo-dev)?

4. bugzilla (although who am I to second-guess devs, esp if there turns
out to be a perfectly good reason for it)?

5. some mysterious place as-yet-unknown-to-me place? :-)

Thanks in advance

Andrew


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