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 1Fsmo7-0004o6-Ek for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:26:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5KKPB3p000754; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:25:11 GMT Received: from aei-tech.com (static-69-95-200-80.ind.choiceone.net [69.95.200.80]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5KKKm7Z018532 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:20:48 GMT Received: (qmail 9491 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2006 16:20:44 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO www.aei-tech.com) (192.168.1.1) by 192.168.1.1 with SMTP; 20 Jun 2006 16:20:44 -0400 Received: from 192.168.2.159 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ctennis) by www.aei-tech.com with HTTP; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <57621.192.168.2.159.1150834844.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> In-Reply-To: <44985525.9040208@gentoo.org> References: <41626.192.168.2.21.1150830698.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <44985525.9040208@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:20:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4? From: "Caleb Tennis" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Archives-Salt: aa7488f4-80ac-49e2-992d-a01b0d0e8fad X-Archives-Hash: 77b2dc31643a8503e855e7bc3448542f > I disagree with separate packages, if it's possible to build both at > once. That's the point of USE flags. I'd say that's fine in the general case, but with a slotted package it's going to be extremely messy. I think we're in agreement that "qt" should represent the most recent version supported by the particular package. If people want to create local use flags for the older qt3 version, I suppose that's ok, but I think you're going to start running into using a lot of "build_with_use" statements to see if that version was built or not. It seems cleaner from the ebuild perspective just to be able to put in a dep on a package name rather than a pseudo-hack in order to support multiple interfaces via a single ebuild. Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list