On 07/06/16 10:19 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> On 07/06/16 05:19 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote:
>> On 06/06/2016 04:53 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
>>>
>>> This -can- be simplified using a REQUIRED_USE to force just-one-of
>>> gtk3,qt4,qt5 , but you can technically do the same with USE=gui too --
>>> all you'd need to do is add dependencies for the no-specific-flag case.
>>>
>>> RDEPEND="...
>>> 	qt5? ( dev-qt/qtcore:5 )
>>> 	qt4? ( dev-qt/qtcore:4 )
>>> 	gtk3? ( x11-libs/gtk+:3 )
>>> 	gui? ( !qt5? ( !qt4? ( !gtk3? ( dev-qt/qtcore:5 ) ) )"
>> Wow, that is wonderfully horrible, and making me a little bit angry ...
>>
>> So USE="-qt5 gui" enables qt5 in this scenario. How is that reasonable?
>>
>>
>> (And as usual I'm now at the stage where I am not sure what problem that
>> we had before we are actually solving ...)
>>
> 
> I didn't like that particular version either, (A) because of what you
> said, and (B) due to it needing a REQUIRED_USE to enforce a
> just-one-of dependency.  But people don't *LIKE* to have layered
> use-flag logic, so...
> 
s/know/like/ on last sentence