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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] add global useflag: webkit
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 07:26:09
Message-Id: 4FA8C9A3.1040603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] add global useflag: webkit by Zac Medico
1 On 05/07/2012 11:24 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 05/07/2012 12:18 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
3 >>>>>>> On Mon, 7 May 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> I propose:
6 >>
7 >>> REQUIRED_USE="== ( qt webkit )"
8 >>
9 >> But this just means that the ebuild has redundant USE flags, so one of
10 >> them shouldn't be in IUSE, in the first place.
11 >
12 > It serves to convey meaning, such that a user who has disabled the qt
13 > USE flag will get a meaningful prompt if that flag is required for
14 > webkit support. This kind of information could be useful to some people,
15 > and it may be preferable to having a separate webkit-qt flag.
16
17 ulm is right, it would still show up as an redudant USE flag as,
18 the preferable result is that even KDE/Qt4 users get webkit-gtk
19 installed if it's the rendering engine provided by the package.
20 GTK+ is just graphical toolkit and not directly GNOME (like KDE users
21 avoiding GNOME). By this same logic both USE="gtk qt4" are enabled in
22 the desktop profile.
23 I don't think we have any packages with *both* webkit-gtk and webkit-qt
24 supports in tree (do we?).