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On 03/08/2015 15:07, Dale wrote: |
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> Michael Palimaka wrote: |
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>> On 03/08/15 07:14, NP-Hardass wrote: |
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>>> ^^ has the pleasant side effect of being easier to read, as a user. The |
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>>> user receives a message saying "at-most-one-of" instead of some |
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>>> convoluted other expression that they don't understand. |
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>>> I am all for the use of ^^ add the default for this reason. |
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>> This introduces a usability nightmare for anyone with both qt4 and qt5 |
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>> in their global USE flags (a common configuration). |
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> As a Gentoo user. This is what I have set and what I hope to get |
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> because of the settings. I have both qt4 and qt5 set in make.conf for |
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> my USE flags. I expect qt5 for whatever packages can work with qt5 and |
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> qt4 for whatever isn't ready for qt5 but requires qt. If for some |
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> reason a package isn't quite ready for qt5 and won't function correctly |
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> for me, I can always set that in package.use until it is. My current |
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> entries for this: |
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> media-libs/phonon-vlc qt5 |
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> media-video/mkvtoolnix -qt5 |
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> I don't have notes on that so not sure what was ran into to require |
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> those. I may comment those out and give them another try. |
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> Point of this post, provide a little user info about expectations and |
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> settings. Y'all sort out the best way forward and let us know if we |
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> need to change something. :-) |
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Dale and I think alike. |
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I also have Qt4 and Qt5 installed, and I expect packages that use them |
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to link to the version that works better (understanding that "better" is |
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usually the opinion of upstream and the devs). If I decide I care about |
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which one works better for a given package, then I'm happy to |
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package.use but mostly I like that file to be as empty as I can get it. |
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What I don't want is for the machinery to give the impression that I |
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can't just go with whatever the dev put in the ebuild for the general |
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case. I also don't want to have to keep going back to use.desc because |
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it's not obvious what the flag probably does. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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