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From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@×××××××.net>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Wrote a FHS konformant Qt ebuild, opinions?
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:14:11
Message-Id: 415890C7.3090403@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Wrote a FHS konformant Qt ebuild, opinions? by Paul de Vrieze
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6 Paul de Vrieze wrote:
7 | On Monday 27 September 2004 01:19, Thomas Weidner wrote:
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9 |>As test i compiled kdelibs-3.3.0 with my Qt ebuild installed.
10 |>./configure finds Qt without any extra argument, but the kde ebuilds
11 |>(or eclasses) surely would need to be updated.
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13 |>I'm no experienced ebuild author, but i was very displeased with the
14 |>current situation, please post your comments and ideas.
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17 | I'm not longer in the kde team, but I don't give much chance to qt being
18 | offered this way. There is a reason that qt is the way it is. If you
19 | wrote the ebuild for your own use it is ok, but the implementation is not
20 | the problem here, it is the policy.
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23 ~From the POV of someone who has no chance nor will to ever be a Gentoo dev:
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25 If it works, demonstrate it to upstream (TrollTech). If it breaks
26 things it'll probably never go into Gentoo or Qt mainline; though
27 compatibility work (symlinks all over the damn place) could provide a
28 migration environment.
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31 Just my 2 cents
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Wrote a FHS konformant Qt ebuild, opinions? Elfyn McBratney <beu@×××.org>
[gentoo-dev] Re: Wrote a FHS konformant Qt ebuild, opinions? Thomas Weidner <3.14159@×××.net>