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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 03:35:47
Message-Id: CAB9SyzQWSKKPLx4sieKhHxCkrGfFDizQA-qmqYOjzjrmEvrbpw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies by Rich Freeman
1 On 3 August 2015 at 11:30, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
3 >>> I want to use fooplayer and bargrapher which are two qt-based
4 >>> applications. fooplayer only supports qt4, and bargrapher only
5 >>> supports qt5. What USE flags should I set, without restorting to
6 >>> per-package flags?
7 >>
8 >> These packages would not have useflags, as they only use one toolkit.
9 >>
10 >
11 > What if qt support is optional, and I do/don't want it enabled?
12
13 Users who don't care, simply follow the defaults as set by the package
14 maintainer or profile. Users who do care wouldn't mind adding a rule
15 to their package.use.
16
17 --
18 Cheers,
19
20 Ben | yngwin
21 Gentoo developer