Just to remember everyone what gnome team actually tried to achieve to reduce any pain from users or devs alike with gnome3 work: * have libs slotted when possible (to the extent of manpower available), so gtk USE flag means gtk, whatever slot is needed by the package using it, * have applications use one toolkit or the other according to maturity of the interface and will of the maintainer. This avoids useless back/forward porting work when upstream actually doesn't care about one of the toolkits in question
The problem raised in this thread is when the package is hard to maintain in a splitted form, not in the control of gnome team, or upstream does not want to split at all. We do this split work when it is sustainable by the team, not just because it's better, please bear that in mind. FTR, I still don't see the real problem in the current solution hence the issue was not brought formally to PMS team earlier. Again, this approach was exposed months ago to this very ml and most likely to #gentoo-dev as well and nobody raised an objection on the method used. -- Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> Gentoo
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