On 07/08/2011 03:11 PM, Stroller wrote:
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?
Other than the dev believing that Gentoo is there to satisfy only his
own needs and that portage is his own customized personal overlay? No,
I don't think so.
