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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 06:57:49
Message-Id: jv02f6$1tf$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5 by Davide Pesavento
1 On 28/07/12 09:46, Davide Pesavento wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
3 >> On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >>> [...]
5 >>> So what would be the methodology of making sure a package has the proper
6 >>> slot?
7 >>
8 >> Obviously you would need to make sure that the package actually does
9 >> support Qt5. Then, as I see it, we could do either:
10 >>
11 >> || ( x11-libs/qt-gui:4 x11-libs/qt-gui:5 )
12 >>
13 >
14 > This is wrong because qt4 and qt5 are not binary compatible.
15 >
16 >> or:
17 >>
18 >> qt4? ( x11-libs/qt-gui:4 )
19 >> qt5? ( x11-libs/qt-gui:5 )
20 >>
21 >
22 > This is the only alternative AFAICS.
23
24 In that case, if Qt5 is installed, the application might depend on Qt4,
25 but when building it, might link against Qt5.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fwd: Heads up for Qt5 Davide Pesavento <pesa@g.o>