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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:58:49
Message-Id: 20060620215422.451ebca1@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4? by Steve Dibb
1 On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:18:54 -0600
2 Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Marius Mauch wrote:
5 > > I don't mind the qt3/qt4 flags for packages that support both, but
6 > > could we also have a qt flag that selects the "preferred" version
7 > > (or for packages that only support one)? Many people simply don't
8 > > care about the version but also don't need support for both in
9 > > every package, also that makes transition easier IMHO.
10 > > Though that creates a problem when both the unversioned and one of
11 > > the versioned flags are used, not sure how to deal with that.
12 > >
13 > That gives me an idea, and if this has been suggested before, just
14 > ignore me -- I'm new here. :)
15 >
16 > What about having a variable in make.conf, something like
17 > USE_QT_VERSIONS, where you could put the preferred Qt versions that
18 > you'd like support built for?
19
20 That would require quite a bit of effort for a single special case,
21 depending how exactly you want to implement it it's likely gonna screw
22 up with the cache as well, so not really an option.
23
24 Marius
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