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From: "Dan Meltzer" <parallelgrapefruit@...>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:44:55 -0400
On 6/20/06, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
> Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
[snip]
> I don't see how any other suggestion is simpler than mine for developers
> or users. Maybe I missed something in skimming the discussion.
>
> To summarize:
>
> - USE=qt enables support for the most current qt.
>
> - USE=qt3 enables qt3 if there is also qt4 interface. This will be an
> easy switch now, because very few packages have a qt4 flag, and it will
> get progressively harder.
>
> - Add qt3 to make.defaults to avoid breaking things like KDE.
>
> I suppose it will also need some clause for the mutually exclusive cases:
> USE="qt -qt3" enables most recent
> any USE combination containing qt3 forces back to qt3
>

One problem I see with this is users that currently have -qt are going
to be confused when it no longer does what they expect

> Thanks,
> Donnie
>
>
>
>

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[RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
-- Stefan Schweizer
Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
-- Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
-- Donnie Berkholz
Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
-- Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
-- Donnie Berkholz
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