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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 16:57:56
Message-Id: 55F1B687.4030604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support by "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov"
1 On 09/10/2015 04:31 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
2 > WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO DICTATE users what they should use and what they should
3 > not.
4
5 You should really either reconsider your understanding of opensource or
6 start to pay me.
7
8 Gentoo is for the most part GPL-2 and you can fork, change and
9 redistribute it any way you want. We are not dictating anything.
10
11 Given the fact that we are short on manpower and that most part of the
12 linux ecosystem is moving towards gtk3... there has been no good
13 argument to support a toolkit version - that is (about to be) deprecated
14 - for exotic corner use cases that people tried to come up with in the
15 heat of the argument.
16
17 Gtk3 is not gnome3. Gtk3 is not systemd. Can we please be realistic now?

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: www-client/chromium gtk3 support Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <mva@×××.name>