>>>>> On Sun, 09 Aug 2015, Sergey Popov 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>

I disagree with this. Really, REQUIRED_USE should be used sparingly,
and IMHO the above is not a legitimate usage case for it.

Ulrich

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