On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Sergey Popov <pinkb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> <qa team lead hat>
>
> In short - apropriate REQUIRED_USE with setting recommended
> USE-flag(e.g. USE="+qt4 qt5" or USE="qt4 +qt5")
>
> </qa team lead hat>
>
> That's most painless decision for both developers and users. Developers
> do not need to maintain ugly dependencies like
>
> DEPEND="qt4 ? (
> qt5 ( dev-qt/qtcore:5 )
> !qt5 ( dev-qt/qtcore:4 )
> )
> ...
> "
> and other mess.
>
> </qa team lead hat>
>
> Users will have default behaviour for empty make.conf. If they adjust
> they make.conf to globally include/exclude some Qt-related USEs - they
> are already moving from default and that's why - they can add apropriate
> options to package.use
>

Sergey,

It seems you completely ignored the discussion that took place in this
thread (and I also think you misunderstood the scenario judging from
the example you gave). Therefore I'm sorry but I will ignore your
opinion as QA team lead.

Thanks,
Davide

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