From: | rindeal <dev.rindeal@×××××.com> | ||
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To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o, qa@g.o, council@g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation | ||
Date: | Fri, 27 May 2016 17:28:59 | ||
Message-Id: | CANgLvuC-_xdQcig=z6oj2xm6VYPj4rCdcSZydN3S9tV3E=Lcnw@mail.gmail.com | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation by William Hubbs |
1 | > (qa hat in place) |
2 | > |
3 | > There is a qa policy about this. All packages in the tree should |
4 | > move away from the non-versioned gtk use flag to versioned use flags, |
5 | > like the ones the qt team uses [1] [2]. |
6 | > |
7 | > This seems to be the best compromise. It allows the maintainers of the |
8 | > packages to decide which toolkit they want to support. If there is too |
9 | > much work involved in maintaining a package with dual support, don't do |
10 | > the work, just make it support the appropriate toolkit version. |
11 | > |
12 | > I have not seen any reason why something like this couldn't work. After |
13 | > all, it seems to work for the qt team. |
14 | > |
15 | > William |
16 | > |
17 | > [1] |
18 | > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Policies#gtk.2Fgtk2.2Fgtk3_USE_flag_situation |
19 | > [2] |
20 | > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Meeting_Summaries#GTK_flag_situation |
21 | |
22 | Shouldn't this rule be generalized? Eg. sqlite will relatively soon |
23 | face a similar issue with SQLite4 and there are certainly more |
24 | examples. |