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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