On 09/10/2015 02:25 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:13 AM, hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 09/10/2015 02:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> >>> Suppose you want to run on a non-embedded system with limited RAM and the >>> ability to choose means you can use one of the two libraries >>> exclusively, thus eliminating the need to load the other library? >>> Being able to control what libraries are in use is a key feature of >>> Gentoo, IMO. >>> >> >> Any reference that gtk3 has a higher memory footprint? >> > > gtk2+gtk3 in RAM at the same time has a higher memory footprint than > either one alone. If any package uses one or the other, it will end > up being loaded into RAM, so there is potentially value in using one > of them exclusively. >
So you are saying for the unlikely case that someone runs gentoo on a desktop system where he cannot even compile gcc, llvm and others without waiting for 2 weeks or setting up his on binhost, we have to provide a backup-path for him, so that gtk3 is not loaded into his RAM? Do you know what that means if you want to _actually_ (not just theoretically) support that? You have to do that consistently, not just for a few packages. So this makes no sense, since it's already an unsupported corner case. > I'm not suggesting that package maintainers should be forced to > support both whenever possible. I just don't think they should be > discouraged from doing so. > Yes, they should be discouraged. It's a QA matter.
