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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: new global USE flag gtk3
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:52:02
Message-Id: 20140220175141.7c347f4d@TOMWIJ-GENTOO
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: new global USE flag gtk3 by Samuli Suominen
1 On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:27:30 +0200
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 >
5 > On 20/02/14 12:07, Duncan wrote:
6 > > Samuli Suominen posted on Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:55:44 +0200 as
7 > > excerpted:
8 > >
9 > >> On 20/02/14 00:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
10 > >>> Following up to today's QA meeting: The gtk3 USE flag is used by
11 > >>> 27 packages, so I suggest making it a global flag:
12 > >>>
13 > >>> gtk3 - Add support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) version 3
14 > >>>
15 > >>> Ulrich
16 > >> that would suggest it's fine to use, and is anything but temporary
17 > >>
18 > >> -1 from here
19 > > You must have missed the news implied by that "following up"
20 > > wording, then. See the announcement/thread "February 2014 QA
21 > > policy updates", posted by creffett, just a few minutes before this
22 > > thread started.
23 >
24 > I find it sad the QA team has been taken over by some of the new and
25 > semi-new
26 > developers who don't completely understand the implications of this
27 > decision yet
28 > since they haven't lived through the older transitions.
29
30 The older transitions came up a few times during the discussions on
31 this (in and out of meeting); we're aware of it to a certain extent,
32 as for whether that is understood I'd say that if around 7 people vote
33 on the matter that that is based on a necessary amount of understanding.
34
35 Feel free to point out further concerns from older transitions.
36
37 --
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39
40 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFD: new global USE flag gtk3 Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>