Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

[Samuli Suominen]

On 20/02/14 10:47, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:40 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> On 20/02/14 09:44, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 07:55 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>>> On 20/02/14 00:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>> Following up to today's QA meeting: The gtk3 USE flag is used by
>>>>> 27 packages, so I suggest making it a global flag:
>>>>>
>>>>> gtk3 - Add support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) version 3
>>>>>
>>>>> Ulrich
>>>> that would suggest it's fine to use, and is anything but temporary
>>>>
>>>> -1 from here
>>>>
>>> MATE desktop (which I hope to bring in to Portage soon) can be built
>>> against gtk+ 2 or gtk+ 3, and upstream supports doing both, so +1 from
>>> me.  Just because gtk+ 3 is the latest, does not mean it's the greatest,
>>> and I really wish people would realize that newest != bestest.
>>>
>>>
>> Then you pick whatever is best supported for MATE, and ship it using that.
>> Later when they have completed their support for GTK+-3, and it's the
>> best supported, you ship that. It's not rocket science.
>>
> OR, since I'm the maintainer, I decide that I'm willing to deal with
> both, instead of you telling me that I need to pick one or the other.
> Upstream says both are supported and viable, and I'm willing to deal
> with the headaches.  Just because you're unwilling doesn't mean others
> aren't.  kthx.
>
>

Bye bye distribution level consistency :-(

It's sad that few stubborn developers can do that.

- Samuli