Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] global useflags
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:18:44
Message-Id: 4828C23B.9000101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] global useflags by Andrey Grozin
1 Andrey Grozin wrote:
2 > There was a period when qtiplot required qt4 emerged with qt3support USE
3 > flag. So, it had pkg_setup which checked this and produced an error it
4 > necessary.
5
6 Ah, that's quite common -- a package FooBar is ported to Qt4, but it
7 still uses some of the Qt4's Qt3support classes. This is handled by
8 FooBar depending on qt4 being built with that particular USE flag, not a
9 "qt3support" in for the FooBar package itself, though.
10
11 Cheer,
12 -jkt
13
14 --
15 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

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