[gentoo-dev] QT3-final has been released; * deps problems

[Dan Armak]

Hi all,

QT3-final has been released. I'm sorry for misleading you to think there was 
more time yet before the final release.

I can commit a qt3 ebuild right now - I have it ready. However we need * 
deps first.

There will probably be relatively few qt3 apps of consequence before the 
release of kde3-final, which is scheduled for early February 2002 (accurate 
this time). So there's no need to hurry, but in case anyone wonders why we 
have no qt3 ebuild, that's why.

There is however a problem with * deps. What I want is to be able to depend 
on >=qt-2.2, but not >=qt-3. But if I say >=qt-2* it might give me 2.1 or 
2.0, and if I say >=qt-2.2* it won't give me 2.3.

I may be behind drobbins' ideas on this; this needs to be worked out. The 
problem is that portage dep resolution doesn't merge deps; if I say
>=qt-2.2 <qt-3
it will actually give me 2 qts, one >=2.2 and one <3.0; for example, 3.0 for 
the first and 2.2 for the second and that's bad.
I think that instead of * deps, or in addition to them, we need to be able to 
say something like
3>x11-libs/qt-x11>=2.2
Only probably with a better syntax.

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel