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Caleb Tennis wrote: |
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> I would personally like to stay with just the "qt" use flag. The use flag |
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> will be for support of whichever version of Qt is supported (v3 or v4) for |
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> the particular emerge. |
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> In the cases where more than one version is supported, it should be for |
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> Qt4 only. The Qt3 version should be a separate emerge. For example, in |
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> the case of the poppler bindings, there should be a poppler-bindings-qt3 |
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> package. |
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The problem here is that a user cannot just say at one point "I do not want |
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any more qt3 packages on my system". He will need a |
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big /etc/portage/package.use list to do it. That is the same problem I |
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currently have with gtk1 - I would like to avoid it for qt. |
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Considering we only have 36 packages [1] with a qt useflag it will be fairly |
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easy to convert them to a qt3/qt4 version system that makes sense to |
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everyone and allows easy enabling/disabling of only qt3 or qt4. |
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[1] http://gentoo-portage.com/Search?search=&use=qt |
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this scheme also allows some people to disable qt4 just with USE="-qt4" and |
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mask it. Any optional qt4 interfaces wont be built then. With only a qt |
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useflag this would require a package.use list again. |
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Can we think about it again? 36 packages is less than half what currently |
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still uses gtk1 in the tree. Doing it right for the users is better than |
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doing it easy for the package maintainers. |
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Thanks, |
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Stefan |
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