Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies

[Sergey Popov]

What's not clear with 'apropriate' word in my sentence?

Let me clarify - if package depend either on Qt4 or Qt5 and CAN not be
built with Qt at all - force this behaviour with REQUIRED_USE.

I think that it was obvious that i have meant exactly this case, cause
other cases are unreasonable here.

09.08.2015 23:07, Alexandre Rostovtsev пишет:
> On Sun, 2015-08-09 at 22:38 +0300, Sergey Popov wrote:
>> <qa team lead hat>
>>
>> In short - apropriate REQUIRED_USE with setting recommended
>> USE-flag(e.g. USE="+qt4 qt5" or USE="qt4 +qt5")
>>
>> </qa team lead hat>
>
> If a package has optional guis, why should users of the default profile get any
> gui enabled by default? The default profile usually means "headless server". It
> means users who specifically don't need gtk, don't need qt4, don't need qt5,
> don't need X.
>
> So please don't + desktop-oriented USE flags in an ebuild's IUSE by default
> unless the whole ebuild is intended mainly for desktop users.
>
>> Users will have default behaviour for empty make.conf. If they adjust
>> they make.conf to globally include/exclude some Qt-related USEs - they
>> are already moving from default and that's why - they can add apropriate
>> options to package.use
>
> There is more than one "default" from which to move away. Different profiles
> globally enable different flags. Desktop, gnome, and kde profiles already enable
> qt4 globally. Plasma already enables qt4 and qt5 globally. And the desktop
> profile will probably end up enabling qt4 and qt5 at some point.
>


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Best regards, Sergey Popov
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