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From: Tuan Van <langthang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:29:03
Message-Id: 449BDB86.5090006@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap by Caleb Tennis
1 Caleb Tennis wrote:
2 > Ok, so there are two fundamental ideas here:
3 >
4 > 1) Keep the qt use flag, use it if a package offers qt3 or qt4 support.
5 > If both, then make it for the more recent version and add a local flag for
6 > qt3 support.
7 >
8 > A few of us like this one, including me. The downside to this is you get
9 > a USE that may look like "qt -qt3" which is a bit ugly. Upside is that it
10 > "just works".
11 >
12 >
13 > 2) Remove qt use flag, and create qt3 and qt4 global flags.
14 >
15 > This is what a few others are behind. It's more descriptive of what's
16 > actually going on, but will disrupt ~30 packages that currently use the
17 > "qt" flag.
18
19 not just the ~30 packages that use qt USE flag. it disrupts packages
20 that link to them . For example, yesterday I tried to burn some DVD.
21 Click on k3b icon didn't make it run. I have to run it from konsole
22 to find out that it can't load /usr/lib/libdbus-qt-1.so.1.0.0 .
23 I don't really object to #2 but please do inform current users so
24 thing still work after an `emerge world -Du`
25
26 Thanks,
27 Tuan
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt use flag recap "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>