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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?
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On 6 July 2011, at 17:35, 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?
>=20
> I'm talking about this:
>=20
>  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D374057
>=20
> 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?

Taking a look at this bug today, is there any reason why the ebuild =
shouldn't simply RDEPEND=3D"x11-libs/gtk+" (i.e. remove the explicit dep =
on gtk3), detect what version you have installed on your system and then =
either run --enable-gtk3 or --enable-gtk2 during src_configure(), =
depending upon which you're using?

Stroller.