Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:31:37 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: DougB@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fail to build XEmacs with GTK Message-ID: <20030315143137.57769881.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <1047709502.75367.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> 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> <1047709502.75367.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 15 Mar 2003 01:25:02 -0500
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > > (And, for backwards compatibility's sake, WITH_GTK will still be around
> > > for a while).
> >
> > 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=gtk12? After
> all, this is documented.
I think Doug is concerned about how this looks to people which aren't
that familiar with the ports tree.
It's ok for port maintainers/committers, but for an 'ordinary' user it
may sound as it needs/depends on GNOME. And if such an user doesn't want
GNOME to get installed, he may decide to not install such a port without
trying if it actually installs GNOME or not.
Bye,
Alexander.
--
Reboot America.
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