Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: make USE=qml default for more than just plasma

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

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Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> writes:

> Installing random applications tends to drag in qml requirements, as it
> is a pivotal part of the Qt technology stack required by other
> components. One quickly ends up in USE flag resolution hell when trying
> to select it on a per-package basis for most use cases other than having
> Qt installed solely for an isolated application.
>
> For average desktop use it makes sense to simply default it to on.
> People can always disable it manually if they want, but it basically
> just adds a single package (qtdeclarative) as a dep to your Qt stack.
>

Yes, please do. Especially given Ionen said he was OK with it (IIRC)
and asturm acked it.

> Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>
> ---
>  profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults        | 2 +-
>  profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/make.defaults | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults b/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
> index 72e77543df12..02e4f168b0a1 100644
> --- a/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
> +++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>  # Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
>  # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
>  
> -USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bluetooth branding cairo cdda cdr cups dbus
> dri dts dvd dvdr elogind encode exif flac gif gpm gtk gui icu jpeg
> kf6compat lcms libnotify mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pango pdf png
> policykit ppds qt6 qt5 sdl sound spell startup-notification svg tiff
> truetype vorbis udev udisks unicode upower usb vulkan wxwidgets X xcb
> xft x264 xml xv xvid"
> +USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bluetooth branding cairo cdda cdr cups dbus
> dri dts dvd dvdr elogind encode exif flac gif gpm gtk gui icu jpeg
> kf6compat lcms libnotify mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pango pdf png
> policykit ppds qml qt6 qt5 sdl sound spell startup-notification svg
> tiff truetype vorbis udev udisks unicode upower usb vulkan wxwidgets X
> xcb xft x264 xml xv xvid"
> diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/make.defaults b/profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/make.defaults
> index 62e625bbfdcb..7f42ef98fc5b 100644
> --- a/profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/make.defaults
> +++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/plasma/make.defaults
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
> +# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
>  # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
>  
> -USE="activities declarative dri kde kwallet networkmanager pipewire plasma policykit pulseaudio qml screencast semantic-desktop wayland widgets"
> +USE="activities declarative dri kde kwallet networkmanager pipewire plasma policykit pulseaudio screencast semantic-desktop wayland widgets"

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