On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:12:16 +0200 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/10/12 8:58 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Other option would be to enable "wxwidgets" by default for that > > profiles. > > I prefer this. Changing USE flag meaning in a counter-intuitive way > (to let "gtk" mean "wxwidgets") would seem frustrating to me. > > With "wxwidgets" enabled by default people will get the most likely > desired result (i.e. GUI) "out of the box", and setting > USE="-wxwidgets" will have desired effect. > > Note that with USE="gtk" really meaning USE="wxwidgets", -wxwidgets > would have no effect on such a package, which is the potentially > surprising behavior I mentioned earlier. On the other hand, we should ask ourselves whether the USE flags are very intuitive right now. Say, we have USE=ssl which enables SSL support. We already agreed that's the correct meaning of it, and USE=gnutls,openssl,nss are just to be used when there's more than one implementation to choose from. Shouldn't we have USE=gui in a similar fashion? Most of the devs probably prefer the way 'I want GUI only if it's using my favorite toolkit'. But users OTOH may prefer saying 'I want GUI in this app, no matter what it uses'. This would probably handle the wxwidgets case most correct, having it under USE=gui or similar. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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