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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:13 AM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 09/10/2015 02:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> Suppose you want to run on a non-embedded system with limited RAM and the |
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>> ability to choose means you can use one of the two libraries |
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>> exclusively, thus eliminating the need to load the other library? |
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>> Being able to control what libraries are in use is a key feature of |
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>> Gentoo, IMO. |
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> Any reference that gtk3 has a higher memory footprint? |
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gtk2+gtk3 in RAM at the same time has a higher memory footprint than |
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either one alone. If any package uses one or the other, it will end |
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up being loaded into RAM, so there is potentially value in using one |
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of them exclusively. |
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I'm not suggesting that package maintainers should be forced to |
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support both whenever possible. I just don't think they should be |
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discouraged from doing so. |
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Rich |
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