-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 08/11/2015 03:41 AM, Sergey Popov wrote: > I'd suggest to make a QA team meeting to override this policies > with more correct and rationale. > > Qt team members are greatly appreciated on this meeting. Even more, > i think that we should not take any decision on this without at > least Qt team lead(or half of Qt team devs) > > So, let's arrange some time and talk about this, cause it is > really confusing. Qt team point is understandable, but it's still > wrong. Let's make some consensus here. > > 02.08.2015 19:34, Ben de Groot пишет: >> Recently some team members of the Qt project have adopted these >> ebuild policies: >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Qt/Policies >> >> I have an issue with the policy adopted under "Requires one of >> two Qt versions". In my opinion, in the case where a package >> offers a choice between qt4 or qt5, we should express this in >> explicit useflags and a REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( qt4 qt5 )". This >> offers the user the clearest choice. >> >> Other developers state that users are not interested in such >> implementation details, or that forced choice through >> REQUIRED_USE is too much of a hassle. This results in current >> ebuilds such as quassel to not make it clear that qt4 is an >> option. >> >> This goes against the principle of least surprise, as well as >> against QA recommendations. I would like to hear specifically >> from QA about how we should proceed, but comments from the wider >> developer community are also welcome. >> >> -- Cheers, >> >> Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer >> > > I'm interested in this meeting as well, as maintainer of a package that can be built with one of two toolkit versions. At the moment, I'm using REQUIRED_USE with a preference preset for users that don't care, but it does cause a problem when both flags are set (so it's something I'd like to fix). I'd like to be part of the conversation if you don't mind.
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