Dnia 2014-02-11, o godz. 19:33:06 Chris Reffett <creff...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/11/2014 06:13 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > >> Unfortunately, the concurrent nature of gtk2/gtk3 has resulted in > >> packages that may support either or both the toolkits. To handle > >> this, a few developers have introduced the "gtk3" useflag, that > >> prefers gtk3 over gtk2 when both toolkit versions are supported. > >> At this point, the Gnome team highly recommends prefering gtk3 if > >> possible, skipping the useflag altogether. [1] > > > > Wrong, as is written in policy whether to prefer gtk2 or 3 is up to > > the maintainer of the package. We point people to the fact that > > upstream says gtk2 is a dead end and support will stop (if not in > > fact already stopped) in the near future. > > > > We also recommend to have maintainers support slots for their libs > > where possible considering man-power and to only choose one toolkit > > for applications considering where upstream development is going > > and maturity of the port, and again, this is up to package > > maintainers. > This doesn't make sense to me at all. I can't see why slotted > libraries can't just use USE flags to specify what toolkit they're > built against, just like any other package in the tree (so, for > example, a package that needs webkit-gtk built against gtk3 would > depend on webkit-gtk[gtk3] instead of webkit-gtk:3). I'm well aware > that there could be limitations I'm unaware of (maybe the package only > can build one at a time?), but this is how it looks to me. By > switching to versioned gtk flags, this kills two birds with one stone: > it makes it obvious to the end user which version they're trying to > build their package against, and it gets rid of the need for (ab)using > revision numbers to implement slots like that. Except when you end up rebuilding the huge thing twice. Or trying to live with binpackages -- the thing that most Gentoo developers don't care about at all. They just love their precious USE flags so much they'd shove them everywhere for the sake of it. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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