Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 07 July 2011 10:12:43 微菜 did opine thusly:
> Devs can do what ever they think are right. Don't argue with them
> unless you pay them. Want gtk2 support? Put your ebuild in your
> personal overlay.

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.

Commit rights never gave a dev that power.


> 
> On 2011年07月07日 00:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > Is there a secret plan in place to keep users from being able to
> > use Gtk 2 in packages that support both Gtk 2 and 3?  And if
> > yes, why?  Is the user considered too stupid to grasp the
> > awesomeness of Gtk 3 so that the devs 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?
> >  What is the reason people use Gentoo?  Isn't one of them the
> > ability of being able to rebuild packages with different USE
> > flags?
> > 
> > And what is happening to the developers lately?  Some of them
> > have become hostile and arrogant against their own users.
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