[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 07/08/2011 03:11 PM, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 6 July 2011, at 17:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> Is there a secret plan in place to keep users from being able to use Gtk 2 in packages that support both Gtk 2 and 3?  And if yes, why?  Is the user considered too stupid to grasp the awesomeness of Gtk 3 so that the devs have to force the choice upon them?
>>
>> I'm talking about this:
>>
>>   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374057
>>
>> So why should users not be able to choose Gtk 2 with a USE flag?  What is the reason people use Gentoo?  Isn't one of them the ability of being able to rebuild packages with different USE flags?
>
> Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the ebuild shouldn't simply RDEPEND="x11-libs/gtk+" (i.e. remove the explicit dep on gtk3), detect what version you have installed on your system and then either run --enable-gtk3 or --enable-gtk2 during src_configure(), depending upon which you're using?

Other than the dev believing that Gentoo is there to satisfy only his 
own needs and that portage is his own customized personal overlay?  No, 
I don't think so.