From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NeVj8-0000ea-39 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:40:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD36DE0882; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f195.google.com (mail-yw0-f195.google.com [209.85.211.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F76E0CC0 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh33 with SMTP id 33so1349403ywh.16 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:40:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:received:date:from:to :subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=zU/bRrzZjOZ08MRuh6wzO/MKKtfHP7IB4u73EKylI2Q=; b=Omr4PcT80zVmY7VlLitC+NX1fyrRyHtcGPnbRuugQD4UItQ2SMFZ6+q+jJWjzxDNWz cmqI6ZMl6v8cE/mMMp7VnSb0IXQuRopju4lOyVplNO25LFzNOnk2J5B9RPTBTw0Gmw9c 03jZ7KewqX6hB4lR192OujMc4zj4xAT83Mn1s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=NaD8PgIM9TyxBPS9Ktv3+PLV7e2uAFwU/obDylJ0lv4n50XpmkgIszGzSmwk8BLr0S OGy5pUCZqIQXoHHp54Qs6LaYg5drWOhlv7Tt0IWT4pHZL3ZgreLrmaW7YV6T6Ts6r9Qe p/UQ5zQOtjrVOZuSDOzdZ3rmwyRxtHPcX/tP4= Received: by 10.101.211.17 with SMTP id n17mr3964182anq.226.1265643621718; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:40:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-183-49-63.tx.res.rr.com [76.183.49.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm1469345ywd.37.2010.02.08.07.40.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:40:20 -0800 (PST) Sender: William Hubbs Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:40:18 -0600 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:40:18 -0600 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags Message-ID: <20100208154018.GA9583@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20100208131131.7a034559@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 2d829e70-5804-42b9-8f4b-91cf94479d70 X-Archives-Hash: 8756c7544eafc59d8cd5ccc35b9b8bf3 --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: > >> 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? >=20 > This would mean that we favor one group of people over another :P =20 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 --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktwMGIACgkQblQW9DDEZTja0QCgkT5XReYHmQQrOTru0w8ug7LA AZUAniHRDLNTj2PI2tsGk/1p8Y4Ihzg5 =K8uu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z--