Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 5/27/16 1:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>> On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote:
>>> On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell <blackwelllandis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016
>>>
>>> Good to know, thanks for stopping by.
>>>
>>
>> Yeah the "its <current> year" meme has been making its rounds of the
>> internet.
>>
>> anyhow, my 2017 question is about avahi.  right now i have USE=gtk and
>> gtk3, where gtk really means gtk2.  i'm not going to change that because
>> it fits QA's specs.  but i could remove it altogether and just drop gtk2
>> support for the next release.  good idea?  bad idea?  i guess i'm asking
>> whats the status of gtk2 in gentoo seeing as its dead upstream.
> 
> From QA's pov, the gtk2 support is up to you, but I also would recommend
> adding a gtk2 use flag if you keep it around. The idea is to eventually
> get away from the non-versioned use flag.

It wouldn't be adding, it would be renaming a flag which is possible but
annoying.  Anyhow I'll cross that bridge after the next release of avahi.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> William
> 


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