Re: [gentoo-dev] www-client/chromium gtk3 support

[Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>]

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On 09/10/2015 01:47 AM, hasufell wrote:
> On 09/10/2015 08:21 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
>> 
>> For me to not support gtk2 in the spacefm ebuild would be
>> providing a package inferior to upstream.
> 
> That sounds like spacefm with gtk3 is lacking anything. It is not. 
> Providing choice for the sake of choice is not always a good idea.
> 

To my knowledge, the gtk3 version of spacefm *did* indeed have less
functionality, at first. I think they're mostly the same nowadays,
though. That said, I wasn't saying gtk3 support was lacking. But if
our package supports less things than upstreams, we're not shipping
/as complete/ a package.

For cases where either toolkit is unstable or doesn't work, I'm with
you: things that are unstable should either be clearly marked as such
or not added to the ebuild at all. But in spacefm's case, upstream
actively supports both toolkits and respects the user's choice.
Following suit here is the best idea, simply because we'd be providing
the same package and not forcing a choice on the user.

If there was something wrong with the gtk2 build -- let's say later on
gtk2 just goes unmaintained and starts breaking on Gentoo -- then
absolutely it should be removed. But for now, I think both should be
supported.

As for USE flag names, personally it doesn't really matter. I wouldn't
mind switching USE flag names, but as you said, we need consistency.
But as long as I'm maintainer of a package that gives users options
between toolkits, I will support them because as long as said toolkit
works, it's a sane choice that's *worth* supporting.

Of course, that's just my opinion and others are free to discard or
ridicule it as they see fit.

tldr: If the problem is USE flags, let's talk USE flags. If it's
supporting more than one toolkit in general, I see no reason not to
let maintainers use their discretion and not force their hand in
either direction.

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