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From: David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 17:06:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100503170617.3cbb38a1@karnak.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eG5KO-62J-15@gated-at.bofh.it>

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On Mon, 03 May 2010 17:30:02 +0200, Grant Edwards wrote about
[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never
in  /etc/portage/package.use:

>On 2010-05-03, David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> wrote:
[snip]
>> Specifically, it applies to:
>>
>>   x11-libs/qt-core
>>   x11-libs/qt-gui
>>   x11-libs/qt-opengl
>>   x11-libs/qt-sql
>>
>> Enable it for all 4 and you will have Qt 3.x support for all Qt app's
>> that are satisfied by the backwards compatibility support in Qt 4.x.
>
>The problem is that if you don't have qt3 support, Portage tells you
>to enable qt3support for _one_ of those packages.  If you do exactly
>what portage tells you (enable it for that one package), then portage
>will complain and tell you to disable it for that package.  At least
>that's what always seemed to happen for me.

I think you need to install the euses command, if you have not already
done so; its package name is the same as its command name.  If you then
run:
   euses qt3support
it will tell you exactly which packages are candidates for the USE
flag.  It sorts out lots of Portage's vagaries in this area.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon)
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       reply	other threads:[~2010-05-03 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2010-05-03 16:06     ` David W Noon [this message]
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2010-05-03 11:20 ` [gentoo-user] qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never in /etc/portage/package.use David W Noon
2010-05-03 14:30   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-05-03  1:21 [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2010-05-03  2:21 ` Dale
2010-05-03  3:00   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards

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