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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 18:22:00
Message-Id: 55F1CA38.3050302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support by Daniel Campbell
1 On 09/10/2015 08:15 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
2 >
3 > To my knowledge, the gtk3 version of spacefm *did* indeed have less
4 > functionality, at first. I think they're mostly the same nowadays,
5 > though.
6
7 That's why spacefm ebuild did not switch to gtk3 when gtk3 support was
8 still experimental.
9
10 > That said, I wasn't saying gtk3 support was lacking. But if
11 > our package supports less things than upstreams, we're not shipping
12 > /as complete/ a package.
13 >
14
15 This sentiment is very confusing. Not even spacefm provides all
16 available configure switches as USE flags and I am glad that it does not.
17
18 >
19 > tldr: If the problem is USE flags, let's talk USE flags. If it's
20 > supporting more than one toolkit in general, I see no reason not to
21 > let maintainers use their discretion and not force their hand in
22 > either direction.
23 >
24
25 We have provided several arguments here repeatedly.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>