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On 17/01/13 15:57, Ben de Groot wrote: |
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> Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages |
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> in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further |
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> in modularization, so we expect the number of packages to grow much |
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> more. We, the Gentoo Qt team, are of the opinion that the time has |
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> come to split all these out into their own category. This category is |
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> to be used for the various modules and applications that belong to the |
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> upstream Qt Framework only (these include e.g. assistant and |
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> linguist). Third-party applications should remain in the current |
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> categories. |
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> |
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> After some initial bikeshedding we came to the conclusion that naming |
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> the category simply "qt" is the most elegant solution. We will then |
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> also be dropping the qt- prefix in package names. This means |
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> x11-libs/qt-core will be moved to qt/core, and so on. |
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Just a user with a suggestion here. Since portage already has kde-base |
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and kde-misc, why not qt-base and qt-misc (and qt-something is the need |
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arises.) Qt5 will have standard core modules and extensions. qt-base |
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and qt-misc look like they can cover these. |
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