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Recently some team members of the Qt project have adopted these ebuild |
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policies: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Qt/Policies |
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I have an issue with the policy adopted under "Requires one of two Qt |
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versions". In my opinion, in the case where a package offers a choice |
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between qt4 or qt5, we should express this in explicit useflags and a |
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REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( qt4 qt5 )". This offers the user the clearest choice. |
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Other developers state that users are not interested in such implementation |
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details, or that forced choice through REQUIRED_USE is too much of a |
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hassle. This results in current ebuilds such as quassel to not make it |
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clear that qt4 is an option. |
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This goes against the principle of least surprise, as well as against QA |
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recommendations. I would like to hear specifically from QA about how we |
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should proceed, but comments from the wider developer community are also |
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welcome. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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