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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 17:55:52
Message-Id: 0e8fb805-1a94-bd83-a194-b642b1e5ba50@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation by William Hubbs
1 On 5/27/16 1:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
3 >> On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote:
4 >>> On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell <blackwelllandis@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>>> I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016
6 >>>
7 >>> Good to know, thanks for stopping by.
8 >>>
9 >>
10 >> Yeah the "its <current> year" meme has been making its rounds of the
11 >> internet.
12 >>
13 >> anyhow, my 2017 question is about avahi. right now i have USE=gtk and
14 >> gtk3, where gtk really means gtk2. i'm not going to change that because
15 >> it fits QA's specs. but i could remove it altogether and just drop gtk2
16 >> support for the next release. good idea? bad idea? i guess i'm asking
17 >> whats the status of gtk2 in gentoo seeing as its dead upstream.
18 >
19 > From QA's pov, the gtk2 support is up to you, but I also would recommend
20 > adding a gtk2 use flag if you keep it around. The idea is to eventually
21 > get away from the non-versioned use flag.
22
23 It wouldn't be adding, it would be renaming a flag which is possible but
24 annoying. Anyhow I'll cross that bridge after the next release of avahi.
25
26 >
27 > Thanks,
28 >
29 > William
30 >
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34 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>