On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 11:00 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > I would really like a way to toggle gtk3 for testing. If you don't > > want to expose it as a 'supported' option for users, then masking it > > sounds fine to me. > > Then add the flag, document it in metadata.xml. > > But in general, try to avoid using this flag in your ebuilds if > possible, the gnome team *really* doesn't want to turn gtk3 into a > global USE flag with uncertain semantics. The best way to avoid this IMHO is to not name the flag the same thing. if you named the chromium flag "experimental-gtk3-ui' or similar, then users would be unable to turn it on by just setting 'gtk3' -A
