Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

[William Hubbs]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:55:41PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 5/27/16 1:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> >> On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote:
> >>> On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell <blackwelllandis@×××××.com> wrote:
> >>>> I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016
> >>>
> >>> Good to know, thanks for stopping by.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yeah the "its <current> year" meme has been making its rounds of the
> >> internet.
> >>
> >> anyhow, my 2017 question is about avahi.  right now i have USE=gtk and
> >> gtk3, where gtk really means gtk2.  i'm not going to change that because
> >> it fits QA's specs.  but i could remove it altogether and just drop gtk2
> >> support for the next release.  good idea?  bad idea?  i guess i'm asking
> >> whats the status of gtk2 in gentoo seeing as its dead upstream.
> >
> > From QA's pov, the gtk2 support is up to you, but I also would recommend
> > adding a gtk2 use flag if you keep it around. The idea is to eventually
> > get away from the non-versioned use flag.
>
> It wouldn't be adding, it would be renaming a flag which is possible but
> annoying.  Anyhow I'll cross that bridge after the next release of avahi.

Ok, I did mis-speak a bit here. You can keep the gtk use flag, but it
refers to gtk2 only.

The gtk3 use flag should be used for gtk3.

Thanks,

William