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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:13:06
Message-Id: 20120623140825.15bf01a6@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits by Gilles Dartiguelongue
1 On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:02:41 +0200
2 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
3 > > It is handled better by working out what exactly the problem is,
4 > > and if you can't implement it nicely using existing features, then
5 > > not implementing it at all until you have suitable features.
6 >
7 > Sorry to make this old thread pop up again but, no, it is not
8 > acceptable to not ship packages like webkit just because you dislike
9 > the solution we used to workaround a well known problem in ebuild
10 > packaging.
11
12 No-one is saying "don't ship webkit". What is being asked is that a) you
13 ship webkit with a subset of functionality disabled if necessary for
14 now, and b) that you provide a general description of what you can't
15 provide cleanly using existing functionality.
16
17 If you really think it's necessary to come up with a workaround like
18 this, though, then you should be mailing the list and asking for QA or
19 Council approval, rather than doing it and then asking for forgiveness
20 later.
21
22 --
23 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>