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On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:45:09 +0200 |
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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote: |
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> Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 14:40 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : |
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> > I'd like to know why using USE flags until a nicer solution is |
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> > available |
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> > is sufficiently terrible that it warrants a hackaround. |
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> remember qt3/qt4, gtk/gtk2. We want to avoid repeating these |
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> "mistakes" hence the guidelines already exposed back when we |
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> introduced gtk3 to the tree. |
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We didn't have REQUIRED_USE or use dependencies back then. We do now. |
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> As you may have noticed, this is still the solution applied for things |
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> hard to split or slot like gtk-vnc or avahi but we didn't see the need |
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> to have such USE flags when the library was so easily slottable. |
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Again, REQUIRED_USE. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |