Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-03-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:55:45 -0700 Raymond Jennings wrote: > If I may ask, isn't usage by 27 packages ample grounds on its own to > make it a global use flag? > > This is one of the questions I noticed on the ebuild quiz, and there > the ballpark is around 5 packages sharing a use flag. we're w

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-03-15 Thread Raymond Jennings
If I may ask, isn't usage by 27 packages ample grounds on its own to make it a global use flag? This is one of the questions I noticed on the ebuild quiz, and there the ballpark is around 5 packages sharing a use flag. we're way over that mark. my two cents. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:22 AM, T

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:28:41 +0200 Samuli Suominen wrote: > > On 20/02/14 18:27, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:26:18 +0200 > > Samuli Suominen wrote: > > > >> On 20/02/14 10:47, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:40 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-25 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 20/02/14 18:27, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:26:18 +0200 > Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> 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 +

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:41:58 + hasufell wrote: > But the question is... what sane alternative to REQUIRED_USE? That > will also have impact on a lot of eclasses. Either pkg_pretend, or Exherbo's MYOPTIONS. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread hasufell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ciaran McCreesh: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:48:11 +0100 Ulrich Mueller > wrote: >> We don't want users having to solve a Zebra Puzzle [1] (or, for >> the more theoretically inclined, a satisfiability problem [2]) to >> find an acceptable combination o

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:26:18 +0200 Samuli Suominen wrote: > > 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/

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:48:11 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > We don't want users having to solve a Zebra Puzzle [1] (or, for the > more theoretically inclined, a satisfiability problem [2]) to find > an acceptable combination of their USE flags. Actually, REQUIRED_USE was introduced precisely to re

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > I see. So you want USE="gtk gtk3" to mean the same thing that gnome > team had intended USE="gtk" to mean, which is to say, "pick > whichever gtk version that is the most sensible". Exactly. > That could work. There are already a few ebuil

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Lars Wendler
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:28:36 +0200 Samuli Suominen wrote: > >On 20/02/14 11:23, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: >> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 03:59 -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: >>> And this is an example of why everyone on the gnome team doesn't >>> like the "gtk3" flag. Because well-meaning developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 10:26 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > > > Unfortunately, at the same time, lots of other developers are going > > to start adding support for building against gtk2 XOR gtk3. Because > > of course "Gentoo is about choice"

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Alex Alexander
On 20 Feb 2014 10:12, "Michał Górny" wrote: > > Dnia 2014-02-20, o godz. 01:44:17 > Steev Klimaszewski napisał(a): > > > 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 b

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 03:23 -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > The KDE team seems to be able to deal with it just fine, but somehow > it's impossible and hard for the GNOME team. Why is that? What does > KDE do differently that makes it feasible? The KDE ecosystem moved from qt3 to qt4 around 20

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 20/02/14 11:23, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 03:59 -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: >> And this is an example of why everyone on the gnome team doesn't like >> the "gtk3" flag. Because well-meaning developers will be looking at >> their one corner of the portage tree, dec

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Samuli Suominen
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 meet

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > Unfortunately, at the same time, lots of other developers are going > to start adding support for building against gtk2 XOR gtk3. Because > of course "Gentoo is about choice", and the more choices, the > merrier, and the gtk3 flag has been d

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 03:59 -0500, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > And this is an example of why everyone on the gnome team doesn't like > the "gtk3" flag. Because well-meaning developers will be looking at > their one corner of the portage tree, deciding that they are going to > handle the choice of

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 02:47 -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > 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. J

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 09:11 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-02-20, o godz. 01:44:17 > Steev Klimaszewski napisał(a): > > > 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Michał Górny wrote: > Except that now users have to use USE='gtk gtk3' to get GUIs in > random applications that support only one toolkit. And then handle > REQUIRED_USE mess for packages that support choosing one of the two. Why REQUIRED_USE? A package can prefer one o

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
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 packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Samuli Suominen
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 suppor

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Lars Wendler
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:23:23 +0100 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 +1 gtk+:3 still is a mess even in its ten

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-20 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-02-20, o godz. 01:44:17 Steev Klimaszewski napisał(a): > 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:

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-19 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-19 Thread Samuli Suominen
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 bu

[gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

2014-02-19 Thread Ulrich Mueller
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