From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FsrsW-0004kw-F3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:51:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5L1moxc009099; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:48:50 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.229]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5L1iuRb028751 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:44:56 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i24so41391wra for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:44:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a/68q1BiJar4ERcHJ4SJvL+wnU7r5S2V1MXKUXmLyI4bPl3zKXGNhbt5huFoQJ66C0dtyTdI9OUu4Ko1kGGWJYb4scM1Fi8l/O4toew7T8DUNVQBwAUHKxePFDjCClT1QBKdAlvSM4KtOIa+5atKVWSGSFkvBxVejpiBQo+vtzU= Received: by 10.54.89.9 with SMTP id m9mr1303951wrb; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.116.5 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46059ce10606201844k6992bce2p5a00561c2aceb3a5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:44:55 -0400 From: "Dan Meltzer" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4? In-Reply-To: <4498A21C.10407@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <200606210225.50299@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <44989B80.80809@gentoo.org> <200606210321.35811@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <4498A21C.10407@gentoo.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k5L1iuRb028751 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k5L1mo1P009099 X-Archives-Salt: 3bedc509-41b7-445a-8f84-23b6fc990f19 X-Archives-Hash: 5f24e55dd9b24f2943ba13091966051d On 6/20/06, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2 wrote: [snip] > I don't see how any other suggestion is simpler than mine for developer= s > or users. Maybe I missed something in skimming the discussion. > > To summarize: > > - USE=3Dqt enables support for the most current qt. > > - USE=3Dqt3 enables qt3 if there is also qt4 interface. This will be an > easy switch now, because very few packages have a qt4 flag, and it will > get progressively harder. > > - Add qt3 to make.defaults to avoid breaking things like KDE. > > I suppose it will also need some clause for the mutually exclusive case= s: > USE=3D"qt -qt3" enables most recent > any USE combination containing qt3 forces back to qt3 > One problem I see with this is users that currently have -qt are going to be confused when it no longer does what they expect > Thanks, > Donnie > > > > --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list