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On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:27:02 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Long story short, this is USE=gtk once again. GNOME team had a |
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> policy that handled the case cleanly and QA outvoted it in favor of |
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> Qt-like policy. Then Qt team figured out their policy was unfriendly, |
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> and 'fixed' it with this ugly hack... |
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> As I see it, this is a major failure of using toolkit-version oriented |
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> flags rather than feature-oriented flags. Possibilities compared: |
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> USE='qt4 qt5' without ^^ is easy to set since it is free of REQUIRED_USE |
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> issues. However, it's ugly: USE='qt4 qt5' may now mean either both |
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> toolkits or one of them. In the latter case, we have two flag |
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> combinations (= two different binary packages) that mean the same. |
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> Additionally, USE='-qt4 -qt5' may mean both none of them or one of |
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> them. If the latter, yet another case of redundant binary package. |
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> USE='qt4 qt5' with ^^/?? is cleaner from user perspective and better |
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> for binary packages. However, it may mean that user will have to |
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> randomly adjust flags per-package. Which may end up sucking even more |
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> with new Qt versions being introduced and package.use being full of |
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> random '-qt4' and stuff. |
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> What would be really clean is USE='qt qt5' (or 'qt qt4'), alike GNOME |
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> team policy. USE=qt would mean 'any version of Qt, if optional', and |
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> qt4/qt5 would be used to switch between Qt4/Qt5. If Qt would be |
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> obligatory, no USE=qt would apply. If only one Qt version would be |
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> supported, no USE=qt4/qt5 would apply. Clean, sane and limited |
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> package.use cruft. |
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This is a clean solution for developers and maintainers, but not |
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for ordinary users — they will confused by "qt qt4 qt5": "what is |
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'qt', how is it different from 'qt4' and 'qt5'. What you are really |
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doing is implementing second-level USE flags, while they were |
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supposed to be linear. |
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> However, as you can see QA has previously outvoted the clean policy for |
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> USE=gtk. I don't see why it would decide otherwise for USE=qt*. |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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