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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'gles2-only'
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 11:03:38
Message-Id: 20200331120318.64f17532@symphony.aura-online.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'gles2-only' by Andreas Sturmlechner
1 On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:57:39 +0200
2 Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > this is currently used by 4 packages but there are many more to come,
7 > especially in the dev-qt/* and kde-*/* categories where 'gles2' is being
8 > renamed to 'gles2-only' where appropriate. Its purpose and description is
9 > really the same everywhere.
10 >
11 > Description: "Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL"
12 >
13 > See also:
14 > - USE={egl,gles{,1,2,3}} flags are a total mess [1]
15 > - [gentoo-dev] Addressing split usage of USE=gles[123] [2]
16 > - PRs in prepration for gentoo.git [3], kde.git [4] and qt.git [5]
17 >
18 > I plan to introduce this real soon, coinciding the necessary revbumps with
19 > upcoming/in-preparation Qt 5.14.2 and KDE Plasma 5.18.4 version bumps.
20 >
21 > Best regards,
22 > Andreas
23 >
24 >
25 > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/627758
26 > [2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/
27 > ab302ac2ab641b1e82acad7d32308266
28 > [3] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13742
29 > [4] https://github.com/gentoo/kde/pull/888
30 > [5] https://github.com/gentoo/qt/pull/210
31
32 +1
33
34 Disclaimer: I maintain 2 of those 4 packages and used it because I knew
35 this change was coming.
36
37 --
38 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
39 Gentoo Linux Developer