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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 08:42:31
Message-Id: 5305BF71.6020804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3 by Steev Klimaszewski
1 On 20/02/14 09:44, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 07:55 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >> On 20/02/14 00:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 >>> Following up to today's QA meeting: The gtk3 USE flag is used by
5 >>> 27 packages, so I suggest making it a global flag:
6 >>>
7 >>> gtk3 - Add support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) version 3
8 >>>
9 >>> Ulrich
10 >> that would suggest it's fine to use, and is anything but temporary
11 >>
12 >> -1 from here
13 >>
14 > MATE desktop (which I hope to bring in to Portage soon) can be built
15 > against gtk+ 2 or gtk+ 3, and upstream supports doing both, so +1 from
16 > me. Just because gtk+ 3 is the latest, does not mean it's the greatest,
17 > and I really wish people would realize that newest != bestest.
18 >
19 >
20
21 Then you pick whatever is best supported for MATE, and ship it using that.
22 Later when they have completed their support for GTK+-3, and it's the
23 best supported, you ship that. It's not rocket science.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3 Steev Klimaszewski <steev@g.o>