From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1F41386F3 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47883141E1; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64A31141B8 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPQc0-0006qr-Ks for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 09:38:12 +0200 Received: from ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net ([98.167.165.199]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 09:38:12 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 09:38:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <55C7AC24.2040503@gentoo.org> <21959.47077.385371.459100@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <55C9CB9F.1060603@gentoo.org> <55C9F2F9.6050302@gentoo.org> <1439298816.4862.7.camel@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip98-167-165-199.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT af87825) X-Archives-Salt: 52a561f5-8bd7-4600-b63f-80d4be7e2e82 X-Archives-Hash: a1e0acf3141ef84595c2194721d482e3 Alexandre Rostovtsev posted on Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:13:36 -0400 as excerpted: > On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 16:04 +0300, Sergey Popov wrote: >> You want to migrate to such decision? Like: >> >> qt? ( >> > qt5? ( dev-lang/qtcore:5 ) !qt5? ( dev-lang/qtcore:4 ) >> ) >> >> Fine by me, if you would ask. > > That flag should be called "gui". Not "qt". > > This would be the real solution to gnome team's gtk/gtk2/gtk3 flag > problem and to qt team's flag problem too. Hasn't the X USE flag effectively been the gui USE flag (with curses as a semi-gui USE flag)? With wayland coming along, what will be the effect, since we'll effectively have two separate GUIs, then, instead of X being the de facto gui USE flag? Of course X remains the default for now, but for how long? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman