On 20/02/14 10:47, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > 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. > >
Bye bye distribution level consistency :-( It's sad that few stubborn developers can do that. - Samuli
