Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Should there be a preference with qt4 and qt5 USE flags?
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:36:06
Message-Id: 1425843355.30179.6.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Should there be a preference with qt4 and qt5 USE flags? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Sun, 2015-03-08 at 21:31 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Some ebuilds in portage for Qt-based software support both Qt4 as well
3 > as Qt5. Some have "+qt4 qt5" in IUSE, others have "qt4 qt5".
4 >
5 > Is there a guideline for this somewhere? If a package needs Qt and thus
6 > lists:
7 >
8 > REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( qt4 qt5 )"
9 >
10 > but otherwise doesn't prefer one version over the other and both are
11 > equally well supported, should qt4 still be enabled by default?
12
13 Follow what upstream developers suggest and/or what works best in
14 practice? At least that's what is usually done for gtk2 vs. gtk3.

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-dev] Re: Should there be a preference with qt4 and qt5 USE flags? Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>