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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 07:38:21
Message-Id: pan$2d602$25b4817a$6c14f0ab$28079441@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies by Alexandre Rostovtsev
1 Alexandre Rostovtsev posted on Tue, 11 Aug 2015 09:13:36 -0400 as
2 excerpted:
3
4 > On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 16:04 +0300, Sergey Popov wrote:
5 >> You want to migrate to such decision? Like:
6 >>
7 >> qt? (
8 >> > qt5? ( dev-lang/qtcore:5 ) !qt5? ( dev-lang/qtcore:4 )
9 >> )
10 >>
11 >> Fine by me, if you would ask.
12 >
13 > That flag should be called "gui". Not "qt".
14 >
15 > This would be the real solution to gnome team's gtk/gtk2/gtk3 flag
16 > problem and to qt team's flag problem too.
17
18 Hasn't the X USE flag effectively been the gui USE flag (with curses as a
19 semi-gui USE flag)?
20
21 With wayland coming along, what will be the effect, since we'll
22 effectively have two separate GUIs, then, instead of X being the de facto
23 gui USE flag? Of course X remains the default for now, but for how long?
24
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27 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
28 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman