From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F7AF1395E2 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30919E0C01; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:44:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw2.antarean.org (gw2.antarean.org [141.105.125.208]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE606E0BB4 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01FF120AB4 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:38:57 +0000 () X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw2.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw2.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id K5RwdJz3TKCb for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:38:56 +0000 Received: from data.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1BD7120495 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:38:56 +0000 () Received: from eve.localnet (eve.adm.antarean.org [10.55.16.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 674BC4B for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 06:42:54 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag question (not total newbie) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 06:44:13 +0100 Message-ID: <3536640.TLjvp0Dg8r@eve> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.6.2-gentoo; KDE/4.14.24; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20161129183414.22575.0D7F2A6F@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> References: <20161129012827.14326.2F5C2D91@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <11dc6905-91b8-55b8-532f-2b0631efcff3@gmail.com> <20161129183414.22575.0D7F2A6F@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> 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: 1130c581-c1a7-46c2-9350-e5aaa6e34c6e X-Archives-Hash: b73bf0e59eda86a8c6875d30ea39bbcd On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:36:49 AM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2016-11-29 14:48, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Different libs, different paths. Only real downside is disk space > > consumed. It's not really much different from having both gth-2 and > > gtk-3, or even gtk and qt > > No, the downside is having 2 GUIs which work in "mostly" similar but > subtly different ways, and screaming (literally, in my case) every time > a new inconsistency surfaces. I get enough of that with websites :-( > > Of course I avoid gtk3 as well. That will greatly reduce the amount of software. I consider these to be libraries. I don't really care about it all looking fully similar. As long as it does the job. -- Joost