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On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:58:57PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:15:17PM +0200, Fabian Zeindl wrote: |
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> > Hello |
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> > |
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> > There was a discussion on the gentoo-user-de list about this two |
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> > Useflags: gtk and gtk2. Because not everybody is sure what the mean, so |
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> > if you have -gtk +gtk2 some think that gtk2 should be installed and soon. |
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> |
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> There are lots of useflags that don't install anything. |
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> Take the new mp3 useflag for example, used by beep-media-player. |
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> would you expect it to install a program called 'mp3'? :) |
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> |
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> > Wouldn't it be better if "gtk" meaned that the newest available gtk |
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> > version ist installed (gtk1 or gtk2) and a flag like oldgtk take the |
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> > older version gtk1. |
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> As soon as gtk3 comes along, you scheme won't work anymore. |
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> Some programs use gtk1 only, some gtk2 only, and a few have |
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> support for both. As there is not much point in using both |
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> of them at runtime, if you use +gtk2, programs that support |
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> both will use gtk2. |
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A saner (and previously proposed) approach would be |
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gtk ~= gtk support. *any* version. |
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gtk1 = gtk v1 support |
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gtk2 = gtk v2 support |
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gtkN = gtk vN support. |
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With the current approach, gtk2 is dependant on gtk; above approach |
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breaks the dependency between the two flags, and gives the user the |
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ability to control explicitly what versions are used, rather then the |
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partial crapshoot it is now. If they want *just* v2 support, above |
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allows it w/out resorting to a package.mask. |
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~brian |
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