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On 09/09/2015 12:20 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: |
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> A user asked for optional gtk3 support in www-client/chromium: |
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> <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559378> |
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> However, reading e.g. |
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> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GNOME/Gnome_Team_Ebuild_Policies |
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#gtk3> |
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says this: |
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>> having USE=gtk3 to enable gtk+-3 instead of gtk+-2 support is |
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>> forbidden |
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>> package is an application with support for multiple gtk+, |
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>> maintainer is free to select whatever slot he desires to support. |
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>> It is strongly advised to use gtk+-3 if functionality is |
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>> equivalent. This is to reduce workload of bugs being triggered |
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>> with one slot but not the other. |
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> What are your recommendations for the best course of action? |
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> For stability and maintainability, I'd prefer www-client/chromium |
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> to use the upstream defaults (gtk+-2 AFAIK) since it's most common, |
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> tested, and supported configuration. If/when upstream moves to |
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> gtk+-3, we'd just follow. |
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> I also understand we have users who are eager to run various |
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> configurations, and expect Gentoo to be flexible and allow that. |
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> Would masking a gtk3 USE flag for www-client/chromium be |
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> acceptable? Are there any other solutions that might work? |
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> Paweł |
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x11-misc/spacefm supports multiple toolkits as well. I stay in line |
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with GNOME suggestions by making gtk3 the default, but gtk2 |
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configurable via USE. Versioned USE flags are generally frowned upon, |
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but I see no better way to support both a GTK3 default *and* allow for |
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the GTK2 support. Part of the reason I came to Gentoo (and became a |
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dev) is to support user choice, and personally as a maintainer that |
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matters more than suggestions. |
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If the GNOME team has a solid recommendation for supporting both GTK2 |
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and 3, I'll read it. But for now, defaulting IUSE to gtk3 and allowing |
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the user to set gtk2 is the best of both worlds imo. |
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