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From: "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:26:55
Message-Id: 20060621113218.046639b5@c1358217.kevquinn.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4? by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:25:42 -0700
2 Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
5 > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:14:08 -0700
6 > > Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > > [...]
9
10 Thanks for the clarification
11
12 > The goal is to avoid a double-flag combo to do a single thing. "qt"
13 > always and only affects the _best_ available qt interface for that
14 > package. "qt#" affects only _older_ available qt interfaces for that
15 > package.
16
17 OK; so with this we're not providing a way to get an "only qt3" system
18 or "only qt4" via USE flags. Perhaps users can do that with local
19 masking, provided ebuilds that can build against both depend on all the
20 relevant versions:
21
22 qt? || ( =dev-libs/qt-3.3* =dev-libs/qt-4.1* )
23
24 --
25 Kevin F. Quinn

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4? Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>