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On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 05:09, Andrew Ross wrote: |
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> Does anyone know why net-irc/xchat uses the local USE flag xchatnogtk |
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> instead of looking at the global flag gtk? |
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> >From use.local.desc: |
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> net-irc/xchat:xchatnogtk - Disables building the GTK front end to XChat |
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> >From use.desc: |
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> gtk - Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) |
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> Seems like xchatnogtk is simply duplicating the intended effect of -gtk |
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I agree. It seems redundant. |
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> By the way, I checked Bugzilla in case this had already be raised and |
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> addressed. |
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> Also, a small etiquette question resulting from this email: |
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> In future, should queries like this be sent: |
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> 1. directly to the maintainer of the package (using the herd email alias |
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> when no specific maintainer is listed in metadata.xml)? |
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> 2. to gentoo-dev (since it's ebuild-related)? |
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> 3. to gentoo-user (so the devs can continue important discussions on |
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> gentoo-dev)? |
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> 4. bugzilla (although who am I to second-guess devs, esp if there turns |
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> out to be a perfectly good reason for it)? |
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They should be sent to bugzilla, I would think. Gentoo-dev is for |
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discussion about Gentoo development, so I would see it fitting there, |
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also. |
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> 5. some mysterious place as-yet-unknown-to-me place? :-) |
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> Thanks in advance |
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> Andrew |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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