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Date:      20 Apr 2003 17:22:26 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: use_gnomeng
Message-ID:  <1050873746.9550.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030420212022.GZ25227@vectors.cx>
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On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 17:20, Adam Weinberger wrote:
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> >> (04.20.2003 @ 1406 PST): Doug Barton said, in 0.6K: <<
> > On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> > > >   How about a port that just uses gtk12?
> > >
> > > USE_GNOME=3D	gtk12
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> > I'm going to keep bringing this up, since it keeps not getting addresse=
d.
> > Ports that ONLY want gtk should not need USE_GNOME. The USE_GTK knob
> > should be preserved ad infinitum.
> >> end of "Re: use_gnomeng" from Doug Barton <<
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> Doug -
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> USE_{GTK,ESOUND,IMLIB} are still defined in bsd.gnome.mk.

Still defined now for backwards compatibility.  However, this won't
always be the case.

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> However, Doug, if somebody uses USE_GTK instead of USE_GNOME=3Dgtk12, the=
y
> are also then unable to use other useful gnome macros such as
> gnomeprefix and gnomehack.
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> That being said, I do agree that USE_GTK and USE_GTK2 macros will make
> the learning curve a bit less steep.

Now, sure...but as new releases come out, should we add USE_GTK3,
USE_GTK4...?  I think it scales better to have the one system that
accepts a list of components rather than defining new macros everytime a
new API release comes out.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus@FreeBSD.org
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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