-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 08/02/2015 12:12 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Andrew Savchenko > <birc...@gentoo.org> 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-level USE flags, while they >> were supposed to be linear. > > No argument that it isn't intuitive, but setting USE=qt and > forgetting about it certainly seems more user-friendly than setting > qt4/qt5 on individual packages and worrying about which is better > where. To some extent the current qt policy accomplishes this, but > it sacrifices control when users actually do want it. > > I'm a bit torn on the issue myself, but just telling users to set > USE=qt and forget about it unless you really care seems pretty > simple to me. The documentation for USE=qt4/qt5 could say "this is > an advanced setting for users who want to prefer the qt4 > implementation over others - set USE=qt if all you care about is qt > support." > I like this idea. USE=qt for all apps that optionally support or need it, qt4/qt5 for apps that support both. We can default to qt5 and users can still choose qt4 if they prefer it.
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