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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] gtk/gtk2 USE flag annoyances
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:19:47
Message-Id: 20050826190911.GR1701@nightcrawler
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] gtk/gtk2 USE flag annoyances by Dan Meltzer
1 On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:44:44AM -0400, Dan Meltzer wrote:
2 > Hows the upgrade path RE: end-user useflag changes? Will everyone that
3 > has gtk in their make.conf die a horrible death if they don't see the
4 > upgrade notice? when will they see the upgrade notice? Would it make
5 > sense to leave the gtk flag for a while at least, to ease the end user
6 > into an upgrade?
7 Not saying it's a clean idea, but aside from making a lot of noise
8 about the change over (which should be delayed till that noise has
9 been made), a base/profile.bashrc trick of substituting gtk in when
10 gtk1 is detected would work.
11
12 Hell, it should even allow the migration to be done piecemeal.
13
14 Haven't tried it mind you, but don't see any reason it shouldn't work,
15 aside from it being rather evil imo.
16 ~harring

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] gtk/gtk2 USE flag annoyances Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>