On 02/06/16 03:42 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 09:31:11AM -0400, Damien Levac wrote >> >> IMHO, you see this in reverse. the 'gui' useflag would be useful for >> users who don't want to care about X/wayland/mir and do not want to care >> about gtk/qt, they just want windows to be drawn for the applications >> they install -- without, if possible, pulling useless dependencies. > > How, exactly, will the app draw windows without linking against one of > X/wayland/mir/qt4/qt5/gtk2/gtk3/fltk or whatever else comes down the > pike? >
The "useless dependencies" is the result of one or more of these random flags being enabled globally when an end-user just wants to make sure they get the GUI built for their apps.
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