Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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Hi all,

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:34:08PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/08/2010 02:11 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>:
> >> A Gnome user probably has "X gtk -qt" in make.conf, while a KDE user
> >> has "X qt -gtk" in hope to have programs that support both Gtk and Qt
> >> being built with the toolkit that is more native to his DE.  When a
> >> package has a GUI tool that is able to only use one of those
> >> toolkits, people who have it disabled in make.conf will get no GUI
> >> tool at all even though they have "X" in their USE flags.
> >
> >   Your proposal does not look to appealing to me.  What about people
> > trying to keep "pollution" down and avoid one or the other toolkit?
> 
> This would mean that we favor one group of people over another :P
 
If a package can run in some form without a certain toolkit, why should
we force people to install that toolkit with the package?  Imho that is
bloating their systems unnecessarily.

William


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