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 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] ====================================================================== dwnoon@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) ======================================================================