Subject: USE="gtk gtk2" clarification
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2003-10-17 21:18:04 GMT (5 years, 37 weeks, 2 days, 13 hours and 51 minutes ago)
Okay, Its once again time to clarify the meaning of theese : gtk : Signifies that a user wants support for the Gimp ToolKit in their GUI gtk2: Signifies that in cases where there is a gtk+ 1.2 (old) and gtk+ 2.x (that means, BOTH are supported) they prefer gtk+ 2.0. Testing logic should be as follows: DEPEND=" gtk? ( gtk2? ( >=x11-libs/gtk+-2.0.3 ) !gtk2? ( =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2.10* ) )" And there should be -NO- case where a user can get a "gtk2" UI with the case : USE="-gtk gtk2" since this means that all gtk interfaces should be disabled. the gtk2 USE flag is a hack, and came only due to some migration-style applications that for a period has support for both kinds of GUI (gftp, mozilla) The gtk2 flag is destined to dissapear from the tree, gtk+ 1.2 is unsupported, and badly broken on UTF-8 locales, and hopefully more and more applications who have both interfaces will stabilize the GTK 2 one, and then deprecate the 1.2 interface. Yes, I know people like gtk+ 1.2, but as a user and developer who has to maintain and make programs work with it, I hate gtk+ 1.2. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end