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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto get rid of USE qt3support
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:41:12
Message-Id: hup584$mbk$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto get rid of USE qt3support by Rudmer van Dijk
1 On 06/10/2010 01:17 AM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> On 06/09/2010 11:27 PM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
4 >>> Hi,
5 >>>
6 >>> there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE
7 >>> flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde
8 >>> packages are complaining about qt3support and I don't want it.
9 >>>
10 >>> qt3 left my system a couple of years ago!
11 >>> so this is starting to get really annoying 8-(
12 >>
13 >> What Paul said. qt3support is needed by some Qt4 programs and it's not
14 >> optional. If a program needs it, there's no way around it.
15 >>
16 >> But it's nothing you should be concerned about; qt3support is part of
17 >> Qt4 itself.
18 >
19 > ok, thanks.
20 > it's just that it sounds so old and I'm running ~amd64...
21 > but since you have no control yourself why not de-USE it or make it a forced
22 > USE?
23
24 I'm not sure. My guess is that it's needed in order to trigger a
25 rebuild and that it's not enough for a package to depend on
26 x11-libs/qt-qt3support; the other qt-* libs must be rebuild. I think :P