On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:45, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > -qt +qt3: > > This would only be available in 2 cases: > > - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they're mutually exclusive > - Package supports both qt4 and qt3, and they can both be enabled at once > > In case 1, "-qt +qt3" would enable qt3. In case 2, "-qt +qt3" would > enable qt3. > > In other words, as I've been trying to say all along, there is no such > thing as a preference flag here. That creates a 2-flag combination to > get a single feature, which is _not_ what we want. There is a "qt" flag > to indicate enabling the best available qt for that package, and there > are "qt#" flags to indicate enabling older qt for that package. > > The downside to this setup is that it's difficult to avoid installing > certain qt versions when it's unknown which version USE=qt will pull in > for any given package. This favors an entirely versioned setup instead, > and we should get rid of USE=qt altogether in favor of only USE=qt#.
Avoiding installation of a package can IMHO better be done by using /etc/portage/package.mask Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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