On Sunday 02 April 2006 15:02, Jakub Moc wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:22, Olivier Crête wrote: > >> On Sun, 2006-02-04 at 13:08 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> On Sunday 02 April 2006 12:05, Jakub Moc wrote: > >>>> This is a (not-so happy) reminder that the agony of gtk2 use flag will > >>>> have been lasting for half a year soon. It *really* needs to die. > >>> > >>> too bad it doesnt address packages which still legitimately utilize > >>> gtk/gtk2 > >> > >> Is there a legitimate reason to use gtk1 if the gtk2 support is useable? > > > > nothing personal, but who are you to say whether it's legit ? > > Oh please... no flames :/
it isnt a flame, hence the "nothing personal" expecting Olivier to know every single gtk1/gtk2 package inside and out is asinine > if a package > > provides the interfaces and users like to use them, where's the bug ? > > ive seen peeps from time to time who bring the hate on gtk2 because of > > its fattiness compared to gtk1 ... they like to build packages that still > > can be against gtk1 > > Except that you won't get any support whatsoever for gtk-1 upstream, and > except that it's been agreed upon quite some time ago that gtk vs. gtk2 > use flags is a bad way to select between gtk-1/gtk-2/no gtk at all and > confuses users, except that... oh well, been discussed so many times, > not going to beat a dead horse. and if there are no bugs filed ? this sort of stance is like the "lets remove packages from portage because upstream is dead" ... it benefits no one > Please, remove the gtk2 flag from ebuilds you maintain. Thanks. no -mike -- [email protected] mailing list
