On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:39:29 -0400 (EDT) "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > > Am I making sense? This looks a lot like the gtk/gtk2 flags, but > > inverted; according to use.desc, gtk builds gtk+-1 unless gtk2 is > > set, whereas the above builds highest version compatible with the > > package unless a lower version is specifically requested through > > USE. > > That's not what use.desc says gtk does. You just illustrated how > confusing the gtk/gtk2 use flag situation has been. > > The gtk use flag doesn't specify a version. It just says that the > package should build against *a* version of gtk+. The gtk2 flag was > a way to prefer the gtk2 interface over the gtk1 interface if a > package supported both. ok; so in gtk-land we have gtk2 to prefer the newer interface whereas the proposal for qt/qt3 is to have a specific flag for the older interface. I do prefer the qt/qt3 approach, even though it's inconsistent with what happens on gtk. I don't suppose changing gtk/gtk2 to gtk/gtk1 would be popular... > Thankfully, we've mostly moved past the gtk/gtk2 use flag mess now. > Let's try not to make it quite so hard for people with the qt toolkit. I think we're all agreed there :) So it's worth thrashing out properly. -- Kevin F. Quinn
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