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On 07/09/2011 10:26 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Friday 08 July 2011 18:39:04 Stroller did opine thusly: |
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>> On 8 July 2011, at 16:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> Two USE flags: gtk2 and gtk3 |
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>>> |
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>>> DEPEND=" |
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>>> gtk2? (x11-libs/gtk+:2) |
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>>> gtk3? (x11-libs/gtk+:3) |
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>>> " |
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>>> |
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>>> in src-configure() write the code such that it establishes a |
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>>> precedence |
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>> |
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>> This is the way it was done for gtk vs. gtk2, but the bug has been |
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>> updated since I first read it (over 24 hours ago) and apparently |
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>> the Gnome team don't want the two separate flags in the future. |
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>> I'm not really a gtk or Gnome (or X11) user, so I don't really know, |
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>> but the two separate flags did strike me as a bit of an ugly / |
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>> clumsy way of doing things. |
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> It's also the only mechanism I know of to do it. |
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> If the ebuild will support two toolkits and the choice of which to use |
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> is based solely on a user's preference, there is only one way to |
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> resolve that - a precedence list. There's no way around that. |
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There's also mutually exclusive USE flags (there's an eclass for that), |
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which is what the submitted patch did. |
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