On 01/06/16 11:19 AM, NP-Hardass wrote: > On 06/01/2016 10:29 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: >> Hello, >> >> So here's something more simple wrt GUI USE flags. >> >> Global USE=gui for >> gui - enable an optional graphics user interface or extra GUI tool >> >> Essentially, if it's an optional GUI, it'd be behind a USE=gui, instead >> of USE=gtk, USE=X, USE=qt4 or USE=qt5, when that optional GUI is >> available in only one toolkit version. So hence feature based flag, not >> dependency-based. >> > I know that it was previously mentioned that there was discussion about > this long ago, but I'm not familiar with those discussions. Is someone > more familiar with those discussions able to bring up the talking points? > > One issue that springs to mind though is, let's say a pkg supports only > qt4 for a gui, you'd have the gui flag. Upstream adds qt5 support. Do > you keep the gui flag and make qt4 and qt5 dependent on it, or do you > remove the gui flag? I feel like the latter might lead to confusion, > while the former suggests that the flag should be used more generally > than just one toolkit/version being available.
This would be the: >> There are some other things in the ideas pipeline for when there are >> multiple toolkit choices, but that's something for a different thread, >> a different day and more controversial. ...portion. :)
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