Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-06-06 Thread NP-Hardass
On 05/30/2016 04:46 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > NP, there are 2 patches floating on the MATE ml that move the dependency on > sys-power/upower-pm-utils > consolekit(suspend/resume is handled by consolekit instead). Wold you be > interested to > add those to gentoo MATE? > > Jocke > I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-30 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 18:21 -0400, NP-Hardass wrote: > On 05/27/2016 06:05 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > > On 05/27/2016 02:45 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > > > Not on hand, but as the MATE maintainer, I can tell you that starting > > > with MATE-1.14, two packages are gtk3 only, and starting with 1.16, f

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-30 Thread Mart Raudsepp
Ühel kenal päeval, R, 27.05.2016 kell 13:14, kirjutas Anthony G. Basile: > On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote: > > On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell > m> wrote: > > > I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016 > > > > Good to know, thanks for stopping by. > > > > Yeah the "its

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread NP-Hardass
On 05/27/2016 06:05 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 05/27/2016 02:45 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: >> Not on hand, but as the MATE maintainer, I can tell you that starting >> with MATE-1.14, two packages are gtk3 only, and starting with 1.16, four >> more are. >> > > Aha, thanks for offering that info. W

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 05/27/2016 02:45 PM, NP-Hardass wrote: > On 05/27/2016 02:57 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: >> As far as I'm concerned, if any package I maintain offers both gtk2 and >> gtk3 support, it would be irresponsible for me to *not* offer that >> choice. Gentoo is about flexibility and giving power to the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread NP-Hardass
On 05/27/2016 02:57 PM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > As far as I'm concerned, if any package I maintain offers both gtk2 and > gtk3 support, it would be irresponsible for me to *not* offer that > choice. Gentoo is about flexibility and giving power to the user. Choice > is a central part of that, and b

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread NP-Hardass
On 05/27/2016 11:40 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 05:21:06PM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten >> upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues >> with their gtk3 port, or

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread NP-Hardass
On 05/27/2016 10:21 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten > upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues > with their gtk3 port, or support both, with some of our userbase > clinging to gtk2 for dubiou

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:55:41PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 5/27/16 1:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > >> On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote: > >>> On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell > >>> wrote: > I stopp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 05/27/2016 10:14 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote: >> On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell wrote: >>> I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016 >> >> Good to know, thanks for stopping by. >> > > Yeah the "its year" meme has been making its round

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 05/27/2016 07:21 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten > upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues > with their gtk3 port, or support both, with some of our userbase > clinging to gtk2 for dubiou

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread rindeal
On 27 May 2016 at 20:26, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, R, 27.05.2016 kell 14:10, kirjutas > waltd...@waltdnes.org: >> While we're at it, why are there 23 occurences of the "X" useflag >> in >> /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc when it exists in >> /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc ??

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 27/05/16 02:23 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > If gtk2 support is removed though, then per gnome policy gtk3 component > should come with USE=gtk and per QA policy USE=gtk3. > > The QA policy is not finalized and completely contradicts our side of > things, hence discussions are needed, but did not

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Mart Raudsepp
Ühel kenal päeval, R, 27.05.2016 kell 14:10, kirjutas waltd...@waltdnes.org: >   While we're at it, why are there 23 occurences of the "X" useflag > in > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc when it exists in > /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc ???  I'm talking about stuff like... > > app-misc/vifm:X

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Mart Raudsepp
Ühel kenal päeval, R, 27.05.2016 kell 13:14, kirjutas Anthony G. Basile: > On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote: > > On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell > m> wrote: > > > I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016 > > > > Good to know, thanks for stopping by. > > > > Yeah the "its

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 27/05/16 16:40, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 05:21:06PM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten >> upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues >> with their gtk3 port, or suppo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 05:21:06PM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote > This would ideally not be needed, as the package would instead be > slotted and parallel installable for gtk2 and gtk3, which should be > theoretically possible in all cases, because gtk2 and gtk3 may not live > in the same process, s

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 5/27/16 1:44 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote: >>> On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell wrote: I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016 >>> >>> Good to know, thanks for stoppi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote: > > On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell wrote: > >> I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016 > > > > Good to know, thanks for stopping by. > > > > Yeah the "its year" meme

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread rindeal
> (qa hat in place) > > There is a qa policy about this. All packages in the tree should > move away from the non-versioned gtk use flag to versioned use flags, > like the ones the qt team uses [1] [2]. > > This seems to be the best compromise. It allows the maintainers of the > packages to decide

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 27 May 2016 11:35:01 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Brian Dolbec > wrote: [snip] > > I'll be really sad when gtk2 is totally abolished in Gentoo. :( > > I suppose I'll have to break down and switch to KDE maybe. > > > > In my opinion the upstream gtk

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 5/27/16 12:59 PM, rindeal wrote: > On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell wrote: >> I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016 > > Good to know, thanks for stopping by. > Yeah the "its year" meme has been making its rounds of the internet. anyhow, my 2017 question is about avah

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread rindeal
On 27 May 2016 at 18:54, landis blackwell wrote: > I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016 Good to know, thanks for stopping by.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread landis blackwell
I stopped reading after you reminded me it was 2016 On May 27, 2016 9:21 AM, "Mart Raudsepp" wrote: > Hello, > > Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten > upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues > with their gtk3 port, or support both,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: [snip] > I'll be really sad when gtk2 is totally abolished in Gentoo. :( > I suppose I'll have to break down and switch to KDE maybe. > > In my opinion the upstream gtk developers have gone somewhat bonkers > with their cartoonish changes to th

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Austin English
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/27/2016 09:21 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten > upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues > with their gtk3 port, or support both, with s

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 05/27/2016 04:21 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten > upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues > with their gtk3 port, or support both, with some of our userbase > clinging to gtk2 for dubious

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 05:21:06PM +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten > upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues > with their gtk3 port, or support both, with some of our userbase > clinging

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
On 27/05/16 10:21 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > [ Snip! ] Agree on all other portions above; its the Applications part below that is most contentious though and is also what I care most about: > * Applications may only use a gtk2 based stack or gtk3 based stack in a > given version/revision. gtk3

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Brian Dolbec
On Fri, 27 May 2016 17:21:06 +0300 Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello, > > Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten > upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle > issues with their gtk3 port, or support both, with some of our > userbase clinging to gt

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] gtk/gtk2/gtk3 USE flag situation

2016-05-27 Thread Mart Raudsepp
Hello, Despite it being 2016 and gtk2 pretty much dead, buried and forgotten upstream, many applications still support only gtk2, have subtle issues with their gtk3 port, or support both, with some of our userbase clinging to gtk2 for dubious political or aesthetical reasons. For the latter cases