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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:04:17
Message-Id: 22614215.lrYUj2q8AF@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Wednesday 06 July 2011 19:35:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Is there a secret plan in place to keep users from being able to use Gtk2 in
3 packages that support both Gtk 2 and 3? And if yes, why? Is theuser
4 considered too stupid to grasp the awesomeness of Gtk 3 so that thedevs have
5 to force the choice upon them?
6 > I'm talking about this:
7 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374057
8 > So why should users not be able to choose Gtk 2 with a USE flag? Whatis the
9 reason people use Gentoo? Isn't one of them the ability of beingable to
10 rebuild packages with different USE flags?
11 > And what is happening to the developers lately? Some of them havebecome
12 hostile and arrogant against their own users.
13
14 well, he acts like he took a huge sip from the gnome 'options and choices are
15 bad 'mkay' jug.
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