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 1QeWSP-0008JF-NJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:04:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C25021C035; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078DC21C0BB for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwg12 with SMTP id 12so411745bwg.40 for ; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:02:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=mK0AecLy8jqHu/Sp5QP2mbsLo/RtPhBvGjptJaKA6LM=; b=XK/wKFjYtdq3B5l3vfZeMtJX5cS517gM/A+5KfAfo4X3+TTCIzuvS6fYCeMgSbrlRt KUbqFIDenKJ/LE5bgjxsR7n3BWulDAV+YgCVQ1Ds9ENS5h3+AxjcBM7HivLi3r1FZgGV bUjCXk0cDeTHuGk5ZN8AST+BsxZla7WTCgvGo= Received: by 10.204.82.147 with SMTP id b19mr5506132bkl.204.1309975353105; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC742CF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.199.66.207]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f16sm1969155bke.16.2011.07.06.11.02.31 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:02:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it? Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:02:23 +0200 Message-ID: <22614215.lrYUj2q8AF@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39.2; KDE/4.6.90; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9b43b115a87dd84d16048bc5e7d8ef96 On Wednesday 06 July 2011 19:35:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Is there a secret plan in place to keep users from being able to use Gtk2 in packages that support both Gtk 2 and 3? And if yes, why? Is theuser considered too stupid to grasp the awesomeness of Gtk 3 so that thedevs have to force the choice upon them? > I'm talking about this: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374057 > So why should users not be able to choose Gtk 2 with a USE flag? Whatis the reason people use Gentoo? Isn't one of them the ability of beingable to rebuild packages with different USE flags? > And what is happening to the developers lately? Some of them havebecome hostile and arrogant against their own users. well, he acts like he took a huge sip from the gnome 'options and choices are bad 'mkay' jug. -- #163933