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From: Georg Rudoy <0xd34df00d@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:19:01
Message-Id: CAGbUWSL8M-gMQGJ8Cuj-TGTWQCU_aCSmczux7vKec5GVJ_VQ_A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies by Sergey Popov
1 2015-08-11 11:10 GMT+01:00 Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>:
2 >
3 > 3. Package can be build with Qt4 or Qt5 or both AT THE SAME TIME(if such
4 > package even exists?)
5 >
6
7 Take app-text/poppler as an "officially supported" example.
8
9 Take x11-libs/qwt as an example of a library that gets a patched library
10 name to avoid collisions (at least, last time I looked into it).
11
12 I would argue this is a very desirably property for libraries in general. I
13 even keep my own small overlay with Qt5-enabled versions of libraries like
14 qxmpp, qtermwidget or liblastfm.
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17 > Do not use REQUIRED_USE here, not needed.
18 >
19
20 You missed the fourth option: the package can not be built without Qt GUI,
21 but it supports building with either Qt version at the same time.
22
23 --
24 Georg Rudoy

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o>