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On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:45, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> -qt +qt3: |
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> This would only be available in 2 cases: |
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> - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they're mutually exclusive |
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> - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they can both be enabled at once |
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> In case 1, "-qt +qt3" would enable qt3. In case 2, "-qt +qt3" would |
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> enable qt3. |
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> In other words, as I've been trying to say all along, there is no such |
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> thing as a preference flag here. That creates a 2-flag combination to |
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> get a single feature, which is _not_ what we want. There is a "qt" flag |
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> to indicate enabling the best available qt for that package, and there |
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> are "qt#" flags to indicate enabling older qt for that package. |
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> The downside to this setup is that it's difficult to avoid installing |
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> certain qt versions when it's unknown which version USE=qt will pull in |
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> for any given package. This favors an entirely versioned setup instead, |
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> and we should get rid of USE=qt altogether in favor of only USE=qt#. |
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Avoiding installation of a package can IMHO better be done by |
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using /etc/portage/package.mask |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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