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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 22:06:10
Message-Id: fb27d6e7-e932-01fb-4b11-b048cef84a3f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation by NP-Hardass
1 On 05/27/2016 02:45 PM, NP-Hardass wrote:
2 > On 05/27/2016 02:57 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
3 >> As far as I'm concerned, if any package I maintain offers both gtk2 and
4 >> gtk3 support, it would be irresponsible for me to *not* offer that
5 >> choice. Gentoo is about flexibility and giving power to the user. Choice
6 >> is a central part of that, and basically *the* reason I switched to
7 >> Gentoo or bothered to become a developer.
8 >
9 > +1
10 >
11 >> You also mentioned that Mate and XFCE won't be supporting GTK2. Got any
12 >> links there?
13 >
14 > Not on hand, but as the MATE maintainer, I can tell you that starting
15 > with MATE-1.14, two packages are gtk3 only, and starting with 1.16, four
16 > more are.
17 >
18 >> Just my two cents.
19 >>
20 >> ~zlg
21 >>
22 >
23
24 Aha, thanks for offering that info. Which ones if you don't mind?
25
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o>