Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support

[hasufell]

On 09/10/2015 12:45 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:47 AM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
>> On 09/10/2015 08:21 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>> For me to not support gtk2 in the spacefm ebuild would be providing a
>>> package inferior to upstream.
>>
>> That sounds like spacefm with gtk3 is lacking anything. It is not.
>> Providing choice for the sake of choice is not always a good idea.
>>
>
> Suppose you want to run on an embedded system with limited RAM and the
> ability to choose means you can use one of the two libraries
> exclusively, thus eliminating the need to load the other library?
> Being able to control what libraries are in use is a key feature of
> Gentoo, IMO.
>

We are not optimizing GUI desktop systems for embedded systems . That's
totally unrealistic and not a real use case.