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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:25:24
Message-Id: 1a46daf2-fb19-fcf4-3bc3-054c2df557cd@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui by waltdnes@waltdnes.org
1 On 02/06/16 03:42 PM, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:31:11AM -0400, Damien Levac wrote
3 >>
4 >> IMHO, you see this in reverse. the 'gui' useflag would be useful for
5 >> users who don't want to care about X/wayland/mir and do not want to care
6 >> about gtk/qt, they just want windows to be drawn for the applications
7 >> they install -- without, if possible, pulling useless dependencies.
8 >
9 > How, exactly, will the app draw windows without linking against one of
10 > X/wayland/mir/qt4/qt5/gtk2/gtk3/fltk or whatever else comes down the
11 > pike?
12 >
13
14 The "useless dependencies" is the result of one or more of these
15 random flags being enabled globally when an end-user just wants to
16 make sure they get the GUI built for their apps.

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