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 1QfIRy-0003xW-ED for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:19:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F1EB21C1FA for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0A521C02F for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:32:32 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,500,1304290800"; d="scan'208";a="530035492" Received: from 213-152-39-90.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 08 Jul 2011 21:32:23 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [192.168.1.102]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CD3DA9A7B for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:26:23 +0100 (BST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it? From: Stroller In-Reply-To: <1310152006.231514.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:32:22 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <8072356E-C1BD-413E-A2AC-168E88F5F0E5@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <1310130876.229332.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1562264.5oy8gnuzIK@nazgul> <1310152006.231514.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c00ff719fd5034e451a3b6d390d9c199 On 8 July 2011, at 20:06, Albert Hopkins wrote: > ... > I didn't want to comment on this thread (having been on both sides of > the fence). But I will say this. The best thing about Gentoo is it's = a > "meta-distribution". It gives you more control and more ease to do > things "your" way. I think people should learn to take more advantage > of the latter. I do. Yeah, I hope I don't offend Nikos by saying this, but I think he's = allowing himself (from his comments in the bug report) to get way too = bent out of shape over this, considering he could stick a copy of the = patched ebuild in his local overlay and just compile against that until = gtk3 looks OK under KDE. I have to do this fairly regularly, because all the packages that are = important to me seem to be completely unimportant to anyone else, and my = bugs languish in bugzilla for months at a time. You have to pick your battles, and (whilst I'm not always able to follow = this advice myself) it's not worth letting some asshole on the internet = have a negative affect on you. Nikos has now spent *way* more time arguing his case in the bug report = than he would have done maintaining the ebuild himself. Stroller.