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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] improper use of X
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 18:51:54
Message-Id: d56e729f-4101-f6f4-9cf2-15c6fda166f6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation by rindeal
1 On 27/05/16 02:44 PM, rindeal wrote:
2 >
3 > It also clearly shows how is this flag misused:
4 >
5 > dev-python/PyQt4:X - Build bindings for the QtGui module
6 > dev-python/pyside:X - Build QtGui and QtTest modules
7 > media-gfx/fbida:X - Install the Motif based image viewer "ida"
8 > media-video/aravis:X - Build the GTK+-based video viewer for aravis.
9 > This requires GStreamer and a few plugins but technically not the GST
10 > plugin for aravis.
11 > net-irc/quassel:X - Build the Qt 4 GUI client for quassel. If this USE
12 > flag is disabled, the GUI is not built, and cannot be used. You might
13 > want to disable this on the server, but you need it enabled on the
14 > client.
15 >
16
17 Some of those date back rather far, to when IUSE="X" was effectively
18 the same as the proposed IUSE="gui".

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