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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:36:16
Message-Id: 55F05FF3.5050901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On 09/09/2015 06:14 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > Right... So, back to the issue at hand. If a package -always-
5 > depends on a gtk (usually gtk2), but can optionally be configured to
6 > depend on gtk3 instead (and it should be optional because support
7 > isn't clearly stable yet), what's the solution here?
8 >
9
10 Provide the gtk3 version in an overlay (without gtk3 USE flag), because
11 that's where experimental stuff belongs. If people want to test it, they
12 can do it an we don't have to use ugly stuff like package.use.stable.mask.