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On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 14:57 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> wxGTK not only splits up libraries by version and toolkit, but also by charset |
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> and debug/release. If we had to use different SLOTs rather than USE flags we |
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> would need eight of them for 2.8 alone. And I don't know how we would name the |
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> ebuilds (-r100,-r200,... ugh). |
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Remember, a single process cannot load both gtk2 and gtk3 - you *will* |
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get random crashes. If you think that dealing with interesting bug |
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reports - e.g. caused by application foo which was built against your |
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wxGTK[gtk3] and then crashed after enumerating its plugin directory |
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because of the presence of binary plugin bar which links to libbaz which |
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sometimes dlopens gtk2 at runtime when USE=wombat is enabled - is more |
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fun than doing a bit of work at the start and slotting wxGTK, then |
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please go ahead ;) |
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