On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 11:59 +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 4 August 2015 at 04:20, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > [...] >> > Gentoo should be the best of both worlds. We should give users the >> > power to tweak things, but we shouldn't force them to play with config >> > files all day long just to have a functional system. If users want to >> > care we let them care instead of telling them "don't touch" like most >> > other distros, but if they don't care we still provide reasonable >> > defaults. >> >> And that is exactly what we do. The kde profile enables qt4, the >> plasma profile enables qt5, the other profiles have no qt* useflags >> enabled. These are reasonable defaults. > > That is not correct. The desktop profile enables qt4, because it is a > reasonable default (for qt-only packages, USE=-qt4 means "don't build > any gui", but desktop users always expect some kind of a gui by > default, whether it's gtk or qt*.) > > The result is that qt4 is enabled in child profiles of desktop - gnome > and kde and plasma. Since plasma enables qt5 and does nothing with qt4, > you have all qt versions enabled there. > > And when popular qt5-only, gui-optional packages appear in the tree, we > will need to enable qt5 in desktop profile too.
Exactly, +1.
