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From: Alex Alexander <alex.alexander@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:42:05
Message-Id: 225000070905180942j12efe6d4s3fab7362abdf4668@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 17:21, Ciaran McCreesh
2 <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > Not really. There's no particularly good mechanism for ensuring equal
4 > versions of things where not everything has to be installed. The best
5 > option I can think of is to have a meta package called, say, split-qt,
6 > and to do all your external (not inter-qt-library) dependencies as:
7 >
8 >    x11-libs/split-qt[gui][xmlpatterns]
9 >
10 > and then have x11-libs/split-qt's deps be like:
11 >
12 >    gui? ( ~x11-libs/qt-gui-${PV} )
13
14 how would that solve a user's "emerge -av1 qt-core" when a new Qt
15 version becomes available?
16
17 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] blocking mixed versions of split QT libraries Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>