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On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:12:16 +0200 |
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""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 4/10/12 8:58 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > Other option would be to enable "wxwidgets" by default for that |
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> > profiles. |
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> I prefer this. Changing USE flag meaning in a counter-intuitive way |
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> (to let "gtk" mean "wxwidgets") would seem frustrating to me. |
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> With "wxwidgets" enabled by default people will get the most likely |
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> desired result (i.e. GUI) "out of the box", and setting |
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> USE="-wxwidgets" will have desired effect. |
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> Note that with USE="gtk" really meaning USE="wxwidgets", -wxwidgets |
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> would have no effect on such a package, which is the potentially |
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> surprising behavior I mentioned earlier. |
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On the other hand, we should ask ourselves whether the USE flags are |
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very intuitive right now. |
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Say, we have USE=ssl which enables SSL support. We already agreed |
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that's the correct meaning of it, and USE=gnutls,openssl,nss are just |
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to be used when there's more than one implementation to choose from. |
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Shouldn't we have USE=gui in a similar fashion? Most of the devs |
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probably prefer the way 'I want GUI only if it's using my favorite |
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toolkit'. But users OTOH may prefer saying 'I want GUI in this app, no |
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matter what it uses'. |
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This would probably handle the wxwidgets case most correct, having it |
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under USE=gui or similar. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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