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 1Sdp2N-0004Wn-L3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:47:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD927E05EB; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:46:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F902E055B for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:45:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbuo19 with SMTP id uo19so6279115obb.40 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:45:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=l2xboae0U3VvX1kET+FZgVfxUVAHFbQ9v30ETJlru2o=; b=UZSxNvWu1URL6hYmC87IeAivCg/RTfBoGVR7KyCRIOpe6D7W12EL418/uazWwZmspz G1AR3zxN6aRncsR30vcd5JKrBQgAzgv7XkDqEfLTaaLMq+Lx2euIA8Jp/nJ3YKUDyWTw IxV5T/dt42fwLp1ZpSPuQ8i/S6MnukGpIUPMTrCJZbeqfWv/leSWvHmMOyRihJM+C8dI fK4J13qqvpGpGTSwrItgyDO4CdLsqYGUFZp7fNUiri18twSWSXuWO+nvfqCINBM9bcts pXPVaqWqoA+thjwBzABi9as+hXaBVxINonkAohAAN3Ky0Wh6f+pQO693KukwuKN3U0an CZzw== Received: by 10.50.197.200 with SMTP id iw8mr5407456igc.46.1339361147752; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:45:47 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.199.143 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:45:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120610211919.652fcf0c@googlemail.com> References: <4FD408BF.4040303@gentoo.org> <1339300461.8754.19.camel@rook> <20120610211919.652fcf0c@googlemail.com> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:45:27 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: YT88aNXmB-ZJTYxkK1XG1-ijrQg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 8e79ca66-2666-40e8-a198-44b851f401b3 X-Archives-Hash: 87ac8038b4403a559afc3d2824a63cea On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:54:21 -0400 > Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: >> For libraries, if possible, try splitting gtk2 and gtk3 support into >> different slots (see net-libs/webkit-gtk for an example; the >> gtk2-based versions have -r2xx revision numbers and go in slot 2, >> while the gtk3-based versions have -r3xx revision numbers and go in >> slot 3). > > That is not what revisions are for. If you can't solve a problem > properly using existing mechanisms, ask for new ones. > It's a simple workaround for the lack of proper ebuild namespacing on the basis of slots. So, till we have that, this works pretty well. :) -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team