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

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 00:52, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> Yes, you will need to introduce a qt4 flag as upstreams
>> port packages to qt5, if they choose to also retain a qt4 frontend.
> You're trying to compare gtk to qt directly. They are not the same.
> gtk regards only the graphic library, qt is a library of utility functions 
> too. Qt can be considered like gtk+glib, and that make things more complex.

How does that matter in this context?

> As I said, I'd rather see two flags, qt3 and qt4, to identify the two 
> versions. A simpler alternative would be qt (defaults to 3) and qt4, but 
> that's going to be confused on the long run to something similar to gtk.

I disagree with this and agree with Caleb's earlier suggestion.
Presumably he has some clue what he's talking about when it comes to qt.

Thanks,
Donnie


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