[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-25 Thread Ryan Hill
Harald van Dijk wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:20:47PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:44, Stefan Schweizer wrote: qt3 - enable optional qt3 support qt4 - enable optional qt4 support That will be a mess to support in the long run. Why? Ditto. Can anyone

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
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

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Caleb Tennis wrote: I would personally like to stay with just the qt use flag. The use flag will be for support of whichever version of Qt is supported (v3 or v4) for the particular emerge. In the cases where more than one version is supported, it should be for Qt4 only. The Qt3 version

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:58, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: 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

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Caleb Tennis wrote: On Tuesday 20 June 2006 12:40, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Hi, with kde4 approaching and the new Qt-4 being in the tree we suddenly see the same problems that gtk had with the gtk2 flag again. I think there's a lot of good thoughts surrounding how to handle this. There

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Stefan Schweizer wrote: Why you ask? Because a user does not care if packageX uses qt3 or qt4, he just wants to use it. But why do we have two useflags then? Because the user should be able to disable optional support for either qt3 or qt4 or both for every package. There's a significant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Caleb Tennis
Caleb Tennis wrote: qt3 - enable optional qt3 support qt4 - enable optional qt4 support Maybe I just need a little time to warm up to this. :) Caleb -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:44, Stefan Schweizer wrote: qt3 and qt4 is being used there already and it is obvious It's nice to invent new use flags affecting Qt stuff without contacting those who care for Qt. 2) A package requires either Qt3 or Qt4 (both not both?...such as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Useflags: qt, qt3, qt4?

2006-06-21 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:20:47PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:44, Stefan Schweizer wrote: qt3 - enable optional qt3 support qt4 - enable optional qt4 support That will be a mess to support in the long run. Why? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list