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 1Qeri1-00076f-VX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:45:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F164221C0B9; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.alltele.net (m1.alltele.net [85.30.0.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734DA21C0B9 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.101] ([87.227.57.71]) by smtp.alltele.net (IceWarp 10.3.1 RC1) with ESMTP id QXZ90022 for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:44:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4E15E268.6080005@coolmail.se> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:44:24 +0200 From: pk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110510 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it? References: <4E15161B.30202@fedoraproject.org> <6461919.NtEmo2L7JZ@nazgul> In-Reply-To: <6461919.NtEmo2L7JZ@nazgul> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.77 required=7.00 tests=LOCALPART_IN_SUBJECT=1.56,RATWARE_RCVD_BONUS_SPC=1.00,MR_NOT_ATTRIBUTED_IP=0.20,NO_RDNS2=0.01,MR_DIFF_MID=1.00 version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (1.1) on smtp.alltele.net X-CTCH: RefID="str=0001.0A0B020D.4E15E268.0126,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0"; Spam="Unknown"; VOD="Unknown" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f66c434255d9e174e3e1a091743a5415 On 2011-07-07 09:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Gentoo users have developed a certain expectation over the years, > whereby devs will take user needs seriously and go to extra-ordinary > lengths to support everything under the sun. > > That's what Gentoo does. That's how the system by and large works, and > that's what users have come to expect. It's unreasonable for a dev to > think they can willy-nilly change that based SOLELY on their own > opinion, as the greater community was not built around that behaviour. I think so too. There should be some sort of consensus, at least among the developers (I think most, that I've come across, are reasonable and listen to us users) before they do something like this... In a sense, removing options (USE) at the sole discretion of the developer will make Gentoo look like any other Linux distro. Options that the user can decide is what makes Gentoo unique. Best regards Peter K