Re: [gentoo-dev] GTK und GTK2 Use Flag

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:09:51PM +0100, David Morgan wrote:
> How do you specify gtk v2 only using use flags? You can't!
> 
> If something depends on gtk v1 regardless of use flags (by which I mean
> there's no without any gtk or use v2 option), then if you want
> to emerge it you have to have gtk v1. Unless you want to have some sort
> of system where a package would be masked because of your use flags
> (which would get annoying really quickly), but I don't think you are.
That's semantic quibbling. :)
Use flags are conditionals only; hard deps can't be sidestepped. :)
Finer grained control over conditional linkage is the goal, which the 
current USE="gtk gtk2" doesn't engender.

> assuming that -gtk
> -gtk1 gtk2 means "disable optional gtk (any version) support, but if gtk
> isn't optional but both versions are supported then use v2"
E'yep.
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