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On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:49:30 -0500 |
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:40:50 +0100 |
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> > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:33:47 +0200 |
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> >> Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> > Well the problem is simple, we need to ship webkit with gtk2 and |
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> >> > gtk3 support. This is needed because gentoo has gtk2 based |
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> >> > desktop/apps and because we want to ship gnome3 for example. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Cool thing is that webkit supports being built with each toolkit |
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> >> > without conflicting with the build from the other toolkit hence |
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> >> > we ended up using SLOTS. |
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> >> You could just have gtk2 and gtk3 use flags in the ebuild, use |
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> >> REQUIRED_USE to ensure that at least one is enabled, and build |
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> >> things twice in the ebuild if necessary. |
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> > Ah, so because a few paludis users may be building an additional |
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> > variant of webkit-gtk unnecessarily, we should force all Gentoo |
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> > users to randomly rebuild 1-2 variants depending on how soon |
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> > they're going to get the USE correctly. |
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> Let's all agree that the current solution is less than ideal and could |
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> use improvement. I have several Gentoo & Portage only desktops and I |
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> find myself annoyed with webkit-gtk and its revisions and rebuilds. |
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Any other solution would involve the same rebuilds... |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |