Hello.
On Пнд, 2005-09-19 at 20:24 +0900, Chris White wrote:
I think the problem here isn't about choice, but support. Mainly deprication
is the issue here. GTK2 was meant to be an upgrade of GTK1 interfaces. At
some point upstream is going to have to giveup and say Sorry sam, use gtk2
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +, 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
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 07:28 -0500, Brian Harring wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +, 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
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:48:43 + (UTC)
John N. Laliberte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How to keep gtk1 off of your system:
* use the proper, built in methods for this: add
=x11-libs/gtk+-1* to /etc/portage/package.mask.
Since this may not be that easy for the end-user (lots of ebuilds
to avoid
Hello everyone,
The GNOME herd has discussed and come to an agreement about the gtk
useflag situation.
Please keep comments technical and on topic.
The solution:
There will be just one use flag, gtk. The gtk2 use flag is now
deprecated.
Reasons:
* gtk2 was a temporary solution, was a bad
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 03:48:43PM +, John N. Laliberte wrote:
* use flags were designed to enable/disable optional features, not to
allow/deny installation of specific packages ( such as gtk-1)
* gtk2 was never supposed to mean i want to use gtk-2 only - as the
description says in
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 13:43 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
[...]
Your decision to remove the gtk2 use flag takes away control from people
who were using it correctly (by what the description said). I'm not
against having gtk2 on my systems, but I prefer gtk1 interfaces,
primarily as they are a
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 17:10 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
I have a different solution that should, no doubt, satisfy both sides:
We fork Gentoo. Create a new distro, called GenOne.
That has been done, it has become sentient and applied for developer
status.
You can reach it at [EMAIL
Robin,
Your decision to remove the gtk2 use flag takes away control from people
who were using it correctly (by what the description said). I'm not
against having gtk2 on my systems, but I prefer gtk1 interfaces,
primarily as they are a lot more lighter on memory and disk.
I think the
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:24 +0900, Chris White wrote:
[..]
Marduk,
I have a different solution that should, no doubt, satisfy both
sides:
We fork Gentoo. Create a new distro, called GenOne. This distro
will
include only older wares such as GTK1, Kernel 2.4, libc5, XFree86,
devfs,
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 22:28:07 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Flaming? I wasn't flaming. There's nothing I said that was the least
| bit insulting or controversial. All that I was doing, for the benefit
| of the list, is to introduce a little humor with the intent of perhaps
|
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