Re: [gentoo-dev] Wrote a FHS konformant Qt ebuild, opinions?

[Elfyn McBratney]

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Hello John,

On Monday 27 Sep 2004 23:14, John Richard Moser wrote:
> Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> | On Monday 27 September 2004 01:19, Thomas Weidner wrote:
> |>As test i compiled kdelibs-3.3.0 with my Qt ebuild installed.
> |>./configure finds Qt without any extra argument, but the kde ebuilds
> |>(or eclasses) surely would need to be updated.
> |>
> |>I'm no experienced ebuild author, but i was very displeased with the
> |>current situation, please post your comments and ideas.
> |
> | I'm not longer in the kde team, but I don't give much chance to qt being
> | offered this way. There is a reason that qt is the way it is. If you
> | wrote the ebuild for your own use it is ok, but the implementation is not
> | the problem here, it is the policy.
>
> ~From the POV of someone who has no chance nor will to ever be a Gentoo
> dev:
>
> If it works, demonstrate it to upstream (TrollTech).  If it breaks
> things it'll probably never go into Gentoo or Qt mainline; though
> compatibility work (symlinks all over the damn place) could provide a
> migration environment.

Not exactly an upstream issue, as they use autokonfigury (at least in -free), 
so it defaults to /usr/local.  It's down to the distributors, in this case 
Gentoo, to set a precedent on it's destination in the filesystem, and FHS 
conformance.

Elfyn

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