Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Global USE=gui

[Raymond Jennings]

What about a global "default gui" somewhere in make.conf that says what GUI
to use if a package provides multiple?

Relatedly, I also like having a general "qt" USE flag to select any/the
best version of qt, and then having "qtX' for each version of qt...ditto
for gtk and gtkX

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:59 AM, NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o> wrote:

> On 06/01/2016 12:52 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> > On 01/06/16 11:19 AM, NP-Hardass wrote:
> >> On 06/01/2016 10:29 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> So here's something more simple wrt GUI USE flags.
> >>>
> >>> Global USE=gui for
> >>> gui - enable an optional graphics user interface or extra GUI tool
> >>>
> >>> Essentially, if it's an optional GUI, it'd be behind a USE=gui, instead
> >>> of USE=gtk, USE=X, USE=qt4 or USE=qt5, when that optional GUI is
> >>> available in only one toolkit version. So hence feature based flag, not
> >>> dependency-based.
> >>>
> >> I know that it was previously mentioned that there was discussion about
> >> this long ago, but I'm not familiar with those discussions. Is someone
> >> more familiar with those discussions able to bring up the talking
> points?
> >>
> >> One issue that springs to mind though is, let's say a pkg supports only
> >> qt4 for a gui, you'd have the gui flag. Upstream adds qt5 support.  Do
> >> you keep the gui flag and make qt4 and qt5 dependent on it, or do you
> >> remove the gui flag?  I feel like the latter might lead to confusion,
> >> while the former suggests that the flag should be used more generally
> >> than just one toolkit/version being available.
> >
> > This would be the:
> >
> >>> There are some other things in the ideas pipeline for when there are
> >>> multiple toolkit choices, but that's something for a different thread,
> >>> a different day and more controversial.
> >
> > ...portion. :)
> >
> >
> Ah :)
>
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