Robin, > Your decision to remove the gtk2 use flag takes away control from people > who were using it correctly (by what the description said). I'm not > against having gtk2 on my systems, but I prefer gtk1 interfaces, > primarily as they are a lot more lighter on memory and disk.
I think the problem here isn't about choice, but support. Mainly deprication is the issue here. GTK2 was meant to be an upgrade of GTK1 interfaces. At some point upstream is going to have to giveup and say "Sorry sam, use gtk2 or we can't support you" (Who knows, maybe that's already happened). On top of that, gtk2 will evolve with the libraries it utilizes (X for example). I think that's the main point it comes across. It may look nice, but it also may not work after awhile. Marduk, >I have a different solution that should, no doubt, satisfy both sides: > >We fork Gentoo. Create a new distro, called GenOne. This distro will >include only older wares such as GTK1, Kernel 2.4, libc5, XFree86, devfs, >a.out binaries, DES passwords, etc. It will be just as good as Gentoo, but >catered to >old-timers and and those who prefer to reminisce about the good ol' days. This is what we call flaming, please don't waste time with this. It's annoying as hell, ends up making threads longer than they need, and does nothing to benifit the argument. Thanks. Chris White
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