Bug 420527

Summary:	app-emulation/virt-viewer makes use of gtk3 useflag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Julian Ospald <hasufell>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Virtualization Team <virtualization>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	420493

Description Julian Ospald 2012-06-10 18:21:53 UTC

This package makes use of gtk3 useflag which indicates that there are issues of migration to gtk+:3.
Gtk3 and similar useflags should be avoided.

Adding to tracker. Please have a look.

Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-11 02:32:00 UTC

There are no issues with this package. It requires all depends be built with gtk3 or gtk2 and not mixing and matching as I would expect many apps do. 

The tracker which you refer to doesn't have solution so not really sure what you're expecting here.

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-09-24 10:51:06 UTC

To have slotted virt-viewer, for example :2 and :3, GTK+-2 and GTK+-3

SLOTs are preferred over the mistake called USE="gtk2" or "gtk3"

Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-04 23:52:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> To have slotted virt-viewer, for example :2 and :3, GTK+-2 and GTK+-3
> 
> SLOTs are preferred over the mistake called USE="gtk2" or "gtk3"

And have the mess that is webkit-gtk? -r2xx is gtk2 based and -r3xx is gtk3 based. No thanks.

Comment 4 Julian Ospald 2012-12-05 00:19:06 UTC

why not force gtk+3 here and drop the useflag entirely?

Comment 5 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-05 05:35:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> why not force gtk+3 here and drop the useflag entirely?

What's the advantage for users to pull in nearly 20 packages and rebuilds just so you don't have to see the ugly that is the gtk3 use flag?

USE=gtk3 emerge -pv virt-viewer is pretty hefty on my system.