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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-09-13
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 23:58:03
Message-Id: 55F4BC0E.4010607@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-09-13 by Rich Freeman
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4 On 09/12/2015 04:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
5 > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
6 > wrote:
7 >>
8 >> For instance a desktop profile meant for KDE could set USE="qt
9 >> -gtk" and automatically prefer Qt -- whatever version as
10 >> necessary -- to build GUI applications.
11 >>
12 >
13 > I can buy the KDE profile setting qt, but I don't think it is a
14 > good idea to set -gtk in such a profile. What if a package doesn't
15 > support both? The user would probably prefer that it still be
16 > built with gtk support. If a package only supports one or the
17 > other, then just specifying USE=qt alone should be enough to tell
18 > it to pick that one.
19 >
20 > This is why I've been leaning towards also having an even more
21 > generic USE=gui.
22 >
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24 It was just an example, but that's a point I didn't consider. The
25 point is that it's unversioned, is all.
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