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On 23 June 2012 22:45, Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> wrote:
> Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 14:40 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh a écrit :
>>
>> I'd like to know why using USE flags until a nicer solution is
>> available is sufficiently terrible that it warrants a hackaround.
>
> remember qt3/qt4, gtk/gtk2. We want to avoid repeating these "mistakes"
> hence the guidelines already exposed back when we introduced gtk3 to the
> tree.
I don't see what the problem is now. We have slots, usedeps and
required_use. Why would we need to avoid using gtk2/gtk3 useflags?
We of the Qt team are expecting Qt5 to enter the tree within the
next few months, and I'm not expecting any trouble with using
qt4 and qt5 useflags.
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Cheers,
Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer
Gentoo Qt project lead
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