On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/07/12 09:46, Davide Pesavento wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 28 July 2012 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> So what would be the methodology of making sure a package has the proper >>>> slot? >>> >>> >>> Obviously you would need to make sure that the package actually does >>> support Qt5. Then, as I see it, we could do either: >>> >>> || ( x11-libs/qt-gui:4 x11-libs/qt-gui:5 ) >>> >> >> This is wrong because qt4 and qt5 are not binary compatible. >> >>> or: >>> >>> qt4? ( x11-libs/qt-gui:4 ) >>> qt5? ( x11-libs/qt-gui:5 ) >>> >> >> This is the only alternative AFAICS. > > > In that case, if Qt5 is installed, the application might depend on Qt4, but > when building it, might link against Qt5. > >
No, that would be a bug in the ebuild or somewhere else. BTW, I'm planning to write a qt5-utils.eclass, which will provide an eqmake5 function similar to eqmake4 in qt4-r2.eclass. Cheers, Pesa
