Re: [gentoo-dev] Invitation for discussion

[Spider]

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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:21:52 -0500
Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o> wrote:

> > gtk == enable GTK support
> > gtk2 == use GTK2 instead of GTK1 when possible
> That always kind of bugged me.  If I wanted to go w/ strictly gtk2
> libs, the arrangement of those flags limits me to having to package
> mask the gtk1 libs, which is kind of a sucky approach.
>
> I understand that this setup is in use now, so we can't just go and
> change their meaning spur of the moment- that said, I'd suspect a lot
> of users haven't picked up on the gtk != use gtk1 libs (I know I
> didn't originally).


Too bad.
The other way would have lead to ordering problems and conflicts, which
are even worse that the current ambiguous setup is.

Face it, I want to tear the gtk2 USE flag out.  I wouldn't be happier to
provide only Gtk+2.x support, and grab the legacy stuff, throw it on the
lawn and burn it.

The flag appeared as a choice for applications that decided to slowly
convert and add both UI's to the code,  instead of branching a major
version with a new toolkit dependency.   Unfortunately your solution
wouldn't have solved that.  I thought of it at the time.


However, I hope that in a year or so we will be able to drop the gtk2
USE flag, as more and more projects have matured, and that gtk+1.x is
legacy and not supported, and haven't been supported for at least 3
years does add some heat to the issue. :)

But for the moment, If you know you have used gtk2?   incorrectly to
select the gtk+ dependency... Well, this is the time to fix it... 


//Spider


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