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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?
From:       "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2006-06-21 9:32:18
Message-ID: 20060621113218.046639b5 () c1358217 ! kevquinn ! com
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:25:42 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:14:08 -0700
> > Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]

Thanks for the clarification

> The goal is to avoid a double-flag combo to do a single thing. "qt"
> always and only affects the _best_ available qt interface for that
> package. "qt#" affects only _older_ available qt interfaces for that
> package.

OK; so with this we're not providing a way to get an "only qt3" system
or "only qt4" via USE flags.  Perhaps users can do that with local
masking, provided ebuilds that can build against both depend on all the
relevant versions:

qt? || ( =dev-libs/qt-3.3* =dev-libs/qt-4.1* )

-- 
Kevin F. Quinn

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