On Mon, 03 May 2010 17:30:02 +0200, Grant Edwards wrote about
[gentoo-user] Re: qt3support: only in /etc/make.conf, never
in  /etc/portage/package.use:

>On 2010-05-03, David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
[snip]
>> Specifically, it applies to:
>>
>>   x11-libs/qt-core
>>   x11-libs/qt-gui
>>   x11-libs/qt-opengl
>>   x11-libs/qt-sql
>>
>> Enable it for all 4 and you will have Qt 3.x support for all Qt app's
>> that are satisfied by the backwards compatibility support in Qt 4.x.
>
>The problem is that if you don't have qt3 support, Portage tells you
>to enable qt3support for _one_ of those packages.  If you do exactly
>what portage tells you (enable it for that one package), then portage
>will complain and tell you to disable it for that package.  At least
>that's what always seemed to happen for me.

I think you need to install the euses command, if you have not already
done so; its package name is the same as its command name.  If you then
run:
   euses qt3support
it will tell you exactly which packages are candidates for the USE
flag.  It sorts out lots of Portage's vagaries in this area.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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