On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +0000, John N. Laliberte wrote: > * "but you are taking away choice!" - If a program has both GTK2 and GTK3 > interfaces, there are many ways to allow for testing of the experimental > interface. For instance, package.mask with a revision number.
package.mask isn't a perfect fit from where I sit; if it's already merged (say for development), but the developer has masked gtk-3, all pkgs that prefer gtk-3 will continue linking against it till gtk-3 is unmerged regardless of the masking. Part of the reason I prefer use flags here; aside from that, use flags aren't features, strictly conditionals (intentionally vague) :) > * use the proper, built in methods for this: add "=x11-libs/gtk+-1*" to > /etc/portage/package.mask. If merged, need to unmerge it to block any further linking to it if using || () deps. Issues above aren't blockers at all, just pointing it out since it does have a minor downside, one that should be mentioned in any documentation that tells people how to migrate from gtk(N-1) to gtkN. There are some downsides that should probably be made clear. ~harring
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