[gentoo-dev] USE="gtk gtk2" clarification

[gentoo-dev] USE="gtk gtk2" clarification

[Spider]

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Okay,
   Its once again time to clarify the meaning of theese :

gtk :	 Signifies that a user wants support for the Gimp ToolKit in
	their GUI
gtk2: Signifies that in cases where there is  a gtk+ 1.2 (old)
	and gtk+ 2.x (that means, BOTH are supported)  they prefer gtk+ 2.0.

Testing logic should be as follows:

DEPEND="
	gtk? (
			gtk2? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.3 )
			!gtk2? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10* )
	)"
And there should be -NO- case where a user can get a "gtk2" UI with the
case :
USE="-gtk gtk2"  since this means that all gtk interfaces should be
disabled.


the gtk2 USE flag is a hack, and came only due to some migration-style
applications that for a period has support for both kinds of GUI (gftp,
mozilla)

The gtk2 flag is destined to dissapear from the tree, gtk+ 1.2 is
unsupported, and badly broken on UTF-8 locales, and hopefully more and
more applications who have both interfaces will stabilize the GTK 2 one,
and then deprecate the 1.2 interface.

Yes, I know people like gtk+ 1.2, but as a user and developer who has to
maintain and make programs work with it, I hate gtk+ 1.2. 



//Spider


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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="gtk gtk2" clarification

[Aron Griffis]

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Spider wrote:	[Fri Oct 17 2003, 05:18:04PM EDT]
> the gtk2 USE flag is a hack, and came only due to some migration-style
> applications that for a period has support for both kinds of GUI (gftp,
> mozilla)

, vim

Aron

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