On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:40 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: > 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. >
OR, since I'm the maintainer, I decide that I'm willing to deal with both, instead of you telling me that I need to pick one or the other. Upstream says both are supported and viable, and I'm willing to deal with the headaches. Just because you're unwilling doesn't mean others aren't. kthx.
