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Robin, |
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> Your decision to remove the gtk2 use flag takes away control from people |
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> who were using it correctly (by what the description said). I'm not |
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> against having gtk2 on my systems, but I prefer gtk1 interfaces, |
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> primarily as they are a lot more lighter on memory and disk. |
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I think the problem here isn't about choice, but support. Mainly deprication |
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is the issue here. GTK2 was meant to be an upgrade of GTK1 interfaces. At |
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some point upstream is going to have to giveup and say "Sorry sam, use gtk2 |
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or we can't support you" (Who knows, maybe that's already happened). On top |
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of that, gtk2 will evolve with the libraries it utilizes (X for example). I |
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think that's the main point it comes across. It may look nice, but it also |
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may not work after awhile. |
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Marduk, |
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>I have a different solution that should, no doubt, satisfy both sides: |
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>We fork Gentoo. Create a new distro, called GenOne. This distro will |
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>include only older wares such as GTK1, Kernel 2.4, libc5, XFree86, devfs, |
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>a.out binaries, DES passwords, etc. It will be just as good as Gentoo, but |
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>catered to |
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>old-timers and and those who prefer to reminisce about the good ol' days. |
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This is what we call flaming, please don't waste time with this. It's |
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annoying as hell, ends up making threads longer than they need, and does |
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nothing to benifit the argument. Thanks. |
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Chris White |
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