Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Ben de Groot
On 3 August 2015 at 11:30, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: >>> I want to use fooplayer and bargrapher which are two qt-based >>> applications. fooplayer only supports qt4, and bargrapher only >>> supports qt5. What USE flags should I set, without resto

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Ben de Groot
On 3 August 2015 at 01:33, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 00:34:51 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > [...] > This policy will allow to USE both qt versions whichever is > available preferring newer one. Quite reasonable approach. > Alternatives (^^() and ??()) will require micromanagement

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> I want to use fooplayer and bargrapher which are two qt-based >> applications. fooplayer only supports qt4, and bargrapher only >> supports qt5. What USE flags should I set, without restorting to >> per-package flags? > > These packages wou

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Ben de Groot
On 3 August 2015 at 09:37, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> I find setting USE="qt4 -qt5" a lot more obvious than having USE="qt" (why >> not >> USE="X" ?) which then does different things based on another useflag, >> sometimes. Maybe. It's horribly i

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: > I find setting USE="qt4 -qt5" a lot more obvious than having USE="qt" (why not > USE="X" ?) which then does different things based on another useflag, > sometimes. Maybe. It's horribly inconsistent and even might change result over > time, whi

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Monday 03 August 2015 00:34:51 Ben de Groot wrote: > 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 c

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Patrick Lauer
On Sunday 02 August 2015 22:22:28 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:14:47 -0400 > > NP-Hardass wrote: > > ^^ has the pleasant side effect of being easier to read, as a user. > > The user receives a message saying "at-most-one-of" instead of some > > convoluted other expression that

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Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:14:47 -0400 NP-Hardass wrote: > ^^ has the pleasant side effect of being easier to read, as a user. > The user receives a message saying "at-most-one-of" instead of some > convoluted other expression that they don't understand. > > I am all for the use of ^^ add the defaul

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread NP-Hardass
^^ has the pleasant side effect of being easier to read, as a user. The user receives a message saying "at-most-one-of" instead of some convoluted other expression that they don't understand. I am all for the use of ^^ add the default for this reason. Additionally, ?? has the same effect of be

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Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> >> This is a clean solution for developers and maintainers, but not >> for ordinary users — they will confused by "qt qt4 qt5": "what is >> 'qt', how is it different from 'qt4' and 'q

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Davide Pesavento
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2015-08-03, o godz. 00:34:51 > Ben de Groot napisał(a): > >> 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 adopt

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-08-02, o godz. 21:50:25 Andrew Savchenko napisał(a): > On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 20:35:27 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > Dnia 2015-08-02, o godz. 21:21:03 > > Andrew Savchenko napisał(a): > > > > > On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:27:02 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > > > Long story short, this is USE=gtk

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > This is a clean solution for developers and maintainers, but not > for ordinary users — they will confused by "qt qt4 qt5": "what is > 'qt', how is it different from 'qt4' and 'qt5'. What you are really > doing is implementing second-leve

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 20:35:27 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2015-08-02, o godz. 21:21:03 > Andrew Savchenko napisał(a): > > > On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:27:02 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > > Long story short, this is USE=gtk once again. GNOME team had a > > > policy that handled the case cleanly and

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-08-02, o godz. 21:21:03 Andrew Savchenko napisał(a): > On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:27:02 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > Long story short, this is USE=gtk once again. GNOME team had a > > policy that handled the case cleanly and QA outvoted it in favor of > > Qt-like policy. Then Qt team figure

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:27:02 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > Long story short, this is USE=gtk once again. GNOME team had a > policy that handled the case cleanly and QA outvoted it in favor of > Qt-like policy. Then Qt team figured out their policy was unfriendly, > and 'fixed' it with this ugly hack..

[gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Ben de Groot wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 00:34:51 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > 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 c

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/2/15 7:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > What would be really clean is USE='qt qt5' (or 'qt qt4'), alike GNOME > team policy. USE=qt would mean 'any version of Qt, if optional', and > qt4/qt5 would be used to switch between Qt4/Qt5. If Qt would be > obligatory, no USE=qt would apply. If only one Qt

Re: [gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-08-03, o godz. 00:34:51 Ben de Groot napisał(a): > 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, i

[gentoo-dev] useflag policies

2015-08-02 Thread Ben de Groot
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 shoul