On 03/08/2015 15:07, Dale wrote: > Michael Palimaka wrote: >> On 03/08/15 07:14, NP-Hardass wrote: >>> ^^ has the pleasant side effect of being easier to read, as a user. The >>> user receives a message saying "at-most-one-of" instead of some >>> convoluted other expression that they don't understand. >>> >>> I am all for the use of ^^ add the default for this reason. >> This introduces a usability nightmare for anyone with both qt4 and qt5 >> in their global USE flags (a common configuration). >> >> >> > > > As a Gentoo user. This is what I have set and what I hope to get > because of the settings. I have both qt4 and qt5 set in make.conf for > my USE flags. I expect qt5 for whatever packages can work with qt5 and > qt4 for whatever isn't ready for qt5 but requires qt. If for some > reason a package isn't quite ready for qt5 and won't function correctly > for me, I can always set that in package.use until it is. My current > entries for this: > > media-libs/phonon-vlc qt5 > media-video/mkvtoolnix -qt5 > > I don't have notes on that so not sure what was ran into to require > those. I may comment those out and give them another try. > > Point of this post, provide a little user info about expectations and > settings. Y'all sort out the best way forward and let us know if we > need to change something. :-)
Dale and I think alike. I also have Qt4 and Qt5 installed, and I expect packages that use them to link to the version that works better (understanding that "better" is usually the opinion of upstream and the devs). If I decide I care about which one works better for a given package, then I'm happy to package.use but mostly I like that file to be as empty as I can get it. What I don't want is for the machinery to give the impression that I can't just go with whatever the dev put in the ebuild for the general case. I also don't want to have to keep going back to use.desc because it's not obvious what the flag probably does. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
