On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:09:51PM +0100, David Morgan wrote: > How do you specify gtk v2 only using use flags? You can't! > > If something depends on gtk v1 regardless of use flags (by which I mean > there's no without any gtk or use v2 option), then if you want > to emerge it you have to have gtk v1. Unless you want to have some sort > of system where a package would be masked because of your use flags > (which would get annoying really quickly), but I don't think you are. That's semantic quibbling. :) Use flags are conditionals only; hard deps can't be sidestepped. :) Finer grained control over conditional linkage is the goal, which the current USE="gtk gtk2" doesn't engender.
> assuming that -gtk > -gtk1 gtk2 means "disable optional gtk (any version) support, but if gtk > isn't optional but both versions are supported then use v2" E'yep. > > -- > djm > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- [email protected] mailing list
