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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Should there be a preference with qt4 and qt5 USE flags?
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 19:50:21
Message-Id: mdi959$acc$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Should there be a preference with qt4 and qt5 USE flags? by Alexandre Rostovtsev
1 On 08/03/15 21:35, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2015-03-08 at 21:31 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> Some ebuilds in portage for Qt-based software support both Qt4 as well
4 >> as Qt5. Some have "+qt4 qt5" in IUSE, others have "qt4 qt5".
5 >>
6 >> Is there a guideline for this somewhere? If a package needs Qt and thus
7 >> lists:
8 >>
9 >> REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( qt4 qt5 )"
10 >>
11 >> but otherwise doesn't prefer one version over the other and both are
12 >> equally well supported, should qt4 still be enabled by default?
13 >
14 > Follow what upstream developers suggest and/or what works best in
15 > practice? At least that's what is usually done for gtk2 vs. gtk3.
16
17 Both work equally well. (I'm upstream.)

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