On 09/10/2015 07:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Given the fact that we are short on manpower and that most part of the >> linux ecosystem is moving towards gtk3... there has been no good >> argument to support a toolkit version - that is (about to be) deprecated >> - for exotic corner use cases that people tried to come up with in the >> heat of the argument. >> > > So, my issue is really with the proposition that we need a "good > argument" to support a toolkit version in the first place. >
Because: a) the gnome maintainers already said they are not interested in supporting it indefinitely (they are the maintainers of gtk+ as well) c) it introduces maintenance and configuration complexity where it is absolutely unnecessary (because no one could come up with a real use case) und breaks consistency We _should_ need good arguments before we break consistency and introduce another layer of configuration complexity, REQUIRED_USE flags and other nastiness like package.stable.use.mask and whatnot (mgorny already outlined a few other problems too).
