Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-02-20, o godz. 01:44:17
Steev Klimaszewski <steev@g.o> napisał(a):

> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 07:55 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > On 20/02/14 00:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > Following up to today's QA meeting: The gtk3 USE flag is used by
> > > 27 packages, so I suggest making it a global flag:
> > >
> > > gtk3 - Add support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) version 3
> > >
> > > Ulrich
> >
> > that would suggest it's fine to use, and is anything but temporary
> >
> > -1 from here
> >
> MATE desktop (which I hope to bring in to Portage soon) can be built
> against gtk+ 2 or gtk+ 3, and upstream supports doing both, so +1 from
> me.

Except that now users have to use USE='gtk gtk3' to get GUIs in random
applications that support only one toolkit. And then handle
REQUIRED_USE mess for packages that support choosing one of the two.

> Just because gtk+ 3 is the latest, does not mean it's the greatest,
> and I really wish people would realize that newest != bestest.

Yet it's supported, unlike GTK+2. I really wish people would actually
step up to fix bugs when the time comes rather than shouting about their
right to choose.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny