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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "X" vs "gtk" USE flags
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:08:56
Message-Id: 201002080710.01969.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] "X" vs "gtk" USE flags by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Monday 08 February 2010 06:15:38 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > A lot of ebuilds seem to ignore the "X" USE flag and instead only have
3 > "gtk", "qt" and the like. This should be declared absolutely wrong,
4 > IMHO. When a program provides a command-line tool and a GUI tool, and
5 > the GUI tool uses only one toolkit, then the USE flag should be "X".
6 > "gtk" vs "qt" vs "fltk" etc should be used only in cases where a program
7 > can be built with either of those toolkits.
8
9 tell that to all the devices that use GTK/QT/FLTK w/out X11 on raw frame
10 buffers. USE=X is not a dumping grounds for "GUIs". it's for controlling X11
11 dependencies plain and simple.
12 -mike

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