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From: Johannes Huber <johu@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Should there be a preference with qt4 and qt5 USE flags?
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 20:19:05
Message-Id: 1748267.gsC67pE89M@dutt
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Should there be a preference with qt4 and qt5 USE flags? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Am Sonntag, 8. März 2015, 21:50:02 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
2 > On 08/03/15 21:35, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
3 > > On Sun, 2015-03-08 at 21:31 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
4 > >> Some ebuilds in portage for Qt-based software support both Qt4 as well
5 > >> as Qt5. Some have "+qt4 qt5" in IUSE, others have "qt4 qt5".
6 > >>
7 > >> Is there a guideline for this somewhere? If a package needs Qt and thus
8 > >>
9 > >> lists:
10 > >> REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( qt4 qt5 )"
11 > >>
12 > >> but otherwise doesn't prefer one version over the other and both are
13 > >> equally well supported, should qt4 still be enabled by default?
14 > >
15 > > Follow what upstream developers suggest and/or what works best in
16 > > practice? At least that's what is usually done for gtk2 vs. gtk3.
17 >
18 > Both work equally well. (I'm upstream.)
19
20 As long qt5 is testing only qt4 makes sense.
21
22 --
23 Johannes Huber (johu)
24 Gentoo Linux Developer / KDE Team
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