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

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 11 Sep 2015 08:13:48 -0400 as excerpted:

> USE=gui or something like that if the main effect is to have a gui or
> not.
>  That is the sort of thing that SHOULD go in make.conf or in a profile.
> If disabling gtk makes it a console-only application then use the gui
> flag.

I like the general proposal, but since it's going to council, can we try 
to kill another bird with the same stone?  This USE=gui helps...

Wayland's coming, and to the extent that USE=X has previously indicated a 
GUI, much like USE=gtk and USE=qt indicating the same thing, we're going 
to have problems.

Can we make USE=gui the generic policy for that, and deprecate more 
specific forms for choosing /any/ gui, so they can be used for choosing 
/which/ gui?

Then of course ordain both X and wayland USE flags for choosing specific 
gui platform, like gtk and qt did at their level traditionally.

The question then remains whether ncurses, etc, should be treated as a 
gui. Maybe make mention of that one way or the other in the policy as 
well.

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