Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

[Donnie Berkholz]

Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
>> The goal is to avoid a double-flag combo to do a single thing. "qt"
>> always and only affects the _best_ available qt interface for that
>> package. "qt#" affects only _older_ available qt interfaces for that
>> package.
>
> OK; so with this we're not providing a way to get an "only qt3" system
> or "only qt4" via USE flags.  Perhaps users can do that with local
> masking, provided ebuilds that can build against both depend on all the
> relevant versions:
>
> qt? || ( =dev-libs/qt-3.3* =dev-libs/qt-4.1* )

Yes, I just mentioned elsewhere in the thread that this is a downside of
this design. Another possibility is getting rid of USE=qt and having
only USE=qt#.

Thanks,
Donnie