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From: Caleb Tennis <caleb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:26:43
Message-Id: 57621.192.168.2.159.1150834844.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4? by Donnie Berkholz
1 > I disagree with separate packages, if it's possible to build both at
2 > once. That's the point of USE flags.
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4 I'd say that's fine in the general case, but with a slotted package it's
5 going to be extremely messy.
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7 I think we're in agreement that "qt" should represent the most recent
8 version supported by the particular package.
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10 If people want to create local use flags for the older qt3 version, I
11 suppose that's ok, but I think you're going to start running into using a
12 lot of "build_with_use" statements to see if that version was built or
13 not. It seems cleaner from the ebuild perspective just to be able to put
14 in a dep on a package name rather than a pseudo-hack in order to support
15 multiple interfaces via a single ebuild.
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17 Caleb
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