On 6 July 2011, at 17:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Is there a secret plan in place to keep users from being able to use Gtk 2 in > packages that support both Gtk 2 and 3? And if yes, why? Is the user > considered too stupid to grasp the awesomeness of Gtk 3 so that the devs have > to force the choice upon them? > > I'm talking about this: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374057 > > So why should users not be able to choose Gtk 2 with a USE flag? What is the > reason people use Gentoo? Isn't one of them the ability of being able to > rebuild packages with different USE flags?
Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the ebuild shouldn't simply RDEPEND="x11-libs/gtk+" (i.e. remove the explicit dep on gtk3), detect what version you have installed on your system and then either run --enable-gtk3 or --enable-gtk2 during src_configure(), depending upon which you're using? Stroller.
