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 1Ft7Dq-0002LW-32 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:14:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5LIDVig023209; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:13:31 GMT Received: from coat.coat.com (coat.coat.com [164.153.10.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5LIArlt026290 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:10:54 GMT Received: from rutrow.coat.com (IDENT:U2FsdGVkX1+vHbghh/2Qhl4gdismWykCXkrwTNHJMAQ@rutrow.coat.com [192.168.100.80]) by coat.coat.com (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.10/bcf03-virt) with ESMTP id k5LIArUW022761 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:10:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:10:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4? In-Reply-To: <200606211720.56203.carlo@gentoo.org> Message-ID: References: <200606210921.27405.caleb@gentoo.org> <200606211720.56203.carlo@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=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 4762b6af-5f1a-46aa-b6f6-f37e180614aa X-Archives-Hash: 743e1d9296a978aef0de28e01b519911 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list