Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

["Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:58, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> ok; so in gtk-land we have gtk2 to prefer the newer interface whereas
> the proposal for qt/qt3 is to have a specific flag for the older
> interface.  I do prefer the qt/qt3 approach, even though it's
> inconsistent with what happens on gtk. I don't suppose changing
> gtk/gtk2 to gtk/gtk1 would be popular...
Please don't talk about "interface", Qt is way more than interface as I said, 
so talking about frontends and interface is misleading. If it was just 
interface, of course it would be possible to choose the best between Qt4 and 
Qt3, but this is not an interface problem, it's a bindings problem.

As I said, enabling just one between qt3 and qt4 in bindings would be like 
just having one of "pbindings" useflag, and every ebuild decides if it will 
provide python or perl bindings, just because they happen to start with 'P'.
Qt3 and Qt4 are different enough to be considered different languages from 
some POVs, it does not make sense to treat Qt the exact same way of GTK, 
because it's not only a GUI thing.

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