On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:57:39 +0200
Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is currently used by 4 packages but there are many more to come,
> especially in the dev-qt/* and kde-*/* categories where 'gles2' is being
> renamed to 'gles2-only' where appropriate. Its purpose and description is
> really the same everywhere.
>
> Description: "Use GLES 2.0 or later instead of full OpenGL"
>
> See also:
> - USE={egl,gles{,1,2,3}} flags are a total mess [1]
> - [gentoo-dev] Addressing split usage of USE=gles[123] [2]
> - PRs in prepration for gentoo.git [3], kde.git [4] and qt.git [5]
>
> I plan to introduce this real soon, coinciding the necessary revbumps with
> upcoming/in-preparation Qt 5.14.2 and KDE Plasma 5.18.4 version bumps.
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/627758
> [2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/
> ab302ac2ab641b1e82acad7d32308266
> [3] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13742
> [4] https://github.com/gentoo/kde/pull/888
> [5] https://github.com/gentoo/qt/pull/210
+1
Disclaimer: I maintain 2 of those 4 packages and used it because I knew
this change was coming.
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