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From: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 21:46:23
Message-Id: 5748C016.2080408@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation by Daniel Campbell
1 On 05/27/2016 02:57 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
2 > As far as I'm concerned, if any package I maintain offers both gtk2 and
3 > gtk3 support, it would be irresponsible for me to *not* offer that
4 > choice. Gentoo is about flexibility and giving power to the user. Choice
5 > is a central part of that, and basically *the* reason I switched to
6 > Gentoo or bothered to become a developer.
7
8 +1
9
10 > You also mentioned that Mate and XFCE won't be supporting GTK2. Got any
11 > links there?
12
13 Not on hand, but as the MATE maintainer, I can tell you that starting
14 with MATE-1.14, two packages are gtk3 only, and starting with 1.16, four
15 more are.
16
17 > Just my two cents.
18 >
19 > ~zlg
20 >
21
22 --
23 NP-Hardass

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