On 06/01/2016 12:52 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > 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. :) > > Ah :)
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