On 20/02/14 09:44, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 07:55 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 20/02/14 00:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> Following up to today's QA meeting: The gtk3 USE flag is used by >>> 27 packages, so I suggest making it a global flag: >>> >>> gtk3 - Add support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) version 3 >>> >>> Ulrich >> that would suggest it's fine to use, and is anything but temporary >> >> -1 from here >> > MATE desktop (which I hope to bring in to Portage soon) can be built > against gtk+ 2 or gtk+ 3, and upstream supports doing both, so +1 from > me. Just because gtk+ 3 is the latest, does not mean it's the greatest, > and I really wish people would realize that newest != bestest. > >
Then you pick whatever is best supported for MATE, and ship it using that. Later when they have completed their support for GTK+-3, and it's the best supported, you ship that. It's not rocket science.
