Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: new global USE flag gtk3

[Steev Klimaszewski]

On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 07:55 +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 20/02/14 00:23, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > Following up to today's QA meeting: The gtk3 USE flag is used by
> > 27 packages, so I suggest making it a global flag:
> >
> > gtk3 - Add support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit) version 3
> >
> > Ulrich
> 
> that would suggest it's fine to use, and is anything but temporary
> 
> -1 from here
> 
MATE desktop (which I hope to bring in to Portage soon) can be built
against gtk+ 2 or gtk+ 3, and upstream supports doing both, so +1 from
me.  Just because gtk+ 3 is the latest, does not mean it's the greatest,
and I really wish people would realize that newest != bestest.