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

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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Caleb Tennis wrote:
>> Currently we are at 4), should we change anything?
> 
> My proposal:
> 
> I would personally like to stay with just the "qt" use flag.  The use flag
> will be for support of whichever version of Qt is supported (v3 or v4) for
> the particular emerge.
> 
> In the cases where more than one version is supported, it should be for
> Qt4 only.  The Qt3 version should be a separate emerge.  For example, in
> the case of the poppler bindings, there should be a poppler-bindings-qt3
> package.
> 
> It's not pretty, but I think it's the best tradeoff we have.

My counterproposal:

The newest version of any package should always have the unversioned
flag. Versioned flags should be for a conscious choice to use a less
current package.

I disagree with separate packages, if it's possible to build both at
once. That's the point of USE flags.

Thanks,
Donnie


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