Date: 15 Mar 2003 01:25:02 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@freebsd.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fail to build XEmacs with GTK Message-ID: <1047709502.75367.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20030314210940.N1839@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <OE51K6qSX422M3fJTmh0000e396@hotmail.com> <1047615404.66262.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030314043154.GA94526@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1047616453.66262.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030313230858.H1839@znfgre.tberna.bet> <1047645619.2553.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030314210940.N1839@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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--=-xbFe/72pWqBF/hTNoOGR Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 00:11, Doug Barton wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 02:09, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > > > > However, WITH/WANT_GTK are deprecated, > > > > > > I never saw a good explanation for this. If I just want gtk, why do I= have > > > to get *_GNOME involved? > > > > It allowed us to scale more, and remove redundancy. For example, you > > can have WITH_GTK (that's fine). But what about GTK2, GTK3, etc.? Wit= h > > one macro that allows for listing, we can better accommodate things lik= e > > this. After 4.8 is released, the USE_GNOMENG macro will go away, so > > you'll be down to just USE_GNOME=3D <list>. >=20 > Sorry, you haven't actually answered my question. Why were the gtk knobs > sucked into gnome? gnome is one consumer of gtk, but there are many > others. Don't know for sure. This happened before my time. >=20 > > (And, for backwards compatibility's sake, WITH_GTK will still be around > > for a while). >=20 > IMO, it should stay around in perpetuity. For the reasons I listed above, I don't think this is a good idea. Why is it such a problem to substitute WITH_GTK with USE_GNOME=3Dgtk12? After all, this is documented. Joe >=20 > Doug --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-xbFe/72pWqBF/hTNoOGR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+csc+b2iPiv4Uz4cRAkuUAKChZUhqEd3CxnLVEpWQfnQKVGdr4wCcD00O CgcOP/nkPx5vbLmO1KeXDuw= =jrVR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xbFe/72pWqBF/hTNoOGR-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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