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 1SikD0-0001Ob-PA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:38:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 774C5E0B64; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFB2E0AE2 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.5] (blfd-5d8238e8.pool.mediaWays.net [93.130.56.232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3DB911B40A3 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:36:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4FE6ECF2.3000403@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:33:22 +0200 From: hasufell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.5) Gecko/20120617 Thunderbird/10.0.5 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits References: <4FD408BF.4040303@gentoo.org> <1339300461.8754.19.camel@rook> <20120610211919.652fcf0c@googlemail.com> <20120610214920.11fc9181@googlemail.com> <20120611180828.51dbddcd@googlemail.com> <1339440098.2783.0.camel@belkin4> <20120611194851.53111e7f@googlemail.com> <1340456561.18379.8.camel@kanae> <20120623140825.15bf01a6@googlemail.com> <1340458427.18379.19.camel@kanae> <20120623144050.3182da3b@googlemail.com> <1340462709.18379.28.camel@kanae> <4FE6D951.7020409@gentoo.org> <1340532682.14346.10.camel@kanae> In-Reply-To: <1340532682.14346.10.camel@kanae> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9d75581b-b7fe-4a12-a90c-bd0b5a43b436 X-Archives-Hash: ff0c08f98a66afd74c6c0e58ced29ed0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/24/2012 12:11 PM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > Just to remember everyone what gnome team actually tried to > achieve to reduce any pain from users or devs alike with gnome3 > work: * have libs slotted when possible (to the extent of manpower > available), so gtk USE flag means gtk, whatever slot is needed by > the package using it, * have applications use one toolkit or the > other according to maturity of the interface and will of the > maintainer. This avoids useless back/forward porting work when > upstream actually doesn't care about one of the toolkits in > question I agree and this is exactly what my tracker is about, to track porting issues or even misuse of gtk{,2,3} useflags. You confuse me. My tracker has shown that not all ebuilds follow that policy or even can't because of migration issues or cause they are special in another way. If you think I missed something in my explanation there, add a comment. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP5uzxAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWzzO8H/1+Zs4BiZWIPwsLmCTfHWdH8 kGBylD/TKhJqOU9BimIzlqqKVa0Ikw/hak2vWSdsor/P5dJ/oAQqvUK+S9HWsEaI fCxzoZQZ/ghbYE4a3Ob8V0KWc0602OYO0WKZ9DAHqb47377VYO/CIQ2tsBG9oKM5 gah5fBZnf9mbMGRKREkPLwMG5L6Nl9j34JNO+BB5xBAWhLnNp3JmWfKLMzILWaKf R14uHG78ETDVp3uvQdgbMYzEzRE+a8iaH0lF9ekJwJ5qcGGWhP4mafDHTO4PGPjM OC9Hqt9eMqQFLdjaAxguH9HDyWEhoEg90RQfSK+FsOj2HOMX5s/XevXrdrNF2Uk= =hxx4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----