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

["Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@coat.com>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Carsten Lohrke wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:44, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
>> qt3 and qt4 is being used there already and it is obvious
>
> It's "nice" to invent new use flags affecting Qt stuff without contacting
> those who care for Qt.
>>
>>> 2) A package requires either Qt3 or Qt4 (both not both?...such as
>>> x11-libs/qwt-5).
>>
>> qt3 - enable optional qt3 support
>> qt4 - enable optional qt4 support
>
> That will be a mess to support in the long run. Let's go with that what works
> better, prefer the latest version and be fine with it. I do agree with Caleb
> to use the qt use flag for the latest supported version and in cases it is
> really necessary to have an additional qt3 use flag.

Sounds like:

qt - GLOBAL use flag that causes the package to build against the good version
for that package.

qt3, qt4... - LOCAL use flags to build against specific versions of
qt when it makes sense on a per-package basis and when it's deemed to
be reasonable by the package maintainer.  Easy to keep track of because
they'd all be in use.local.desc.

Michael Sterrett
   -Mr. Bones.-
mr_bones_@gentoo.org
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