On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:45:09 +0200 Gilles Dartiguelongue <[email protected]> wrote: > Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 14:40 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : > > I'd like to know why using USE flags until a nicer solution is > > available > > is sufficiently terrible that it warrants a hackaround. > > remember qt3/qt4, gtk/gtk2. We want to avoid repeating these > "mistakes" hence the guidelines already exposed back when we > introduced gtk3 to the tree.
We didn't have REQUIRED_USE or use dependencies back then. We do now. > As you may have noticed, this is still the solution applied for things > hard to split or slot like gtk-vnc or avahi but we didn't see the need > to have such USE flags when the library was so easily slottable. Again, REQUIRED_USE. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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