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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:57:23
Message-Id: CAG2jQ8iiGL7g=aFRLLphS-Amy_PM2qZiGoRLNxq3AXTAJF9yCg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category by "Michał Górny"
1 On Jan 19, 2013 5:19 PM, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:57:16 +0800
4 > Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
5 >
6 > > Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages
7 > > in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further
8 > > in modularization, so we expect the number of packages to grow much
9 > > more. We, the Gentoo Qt team, are of the opinion that the time has
10 > > come to split all these out into their own category. This category is
11 > > to be used for the various modules and applications that belong to the
12 > > upstream Qt Framework only (these include e.g. assistant and
13 > > linguist). Third-party applications should remain in the current
14 > > categories.
15 > >
16 > > After some initial bikeshedding we came to the conclusion that naming
17 > > the category simply "qt" is the most elegant solution. We will then
18 > > also be dropping the qt- prefix in package names. This means
19 > > x11-libs/qt-core will be moved to qt/core, and so on.
20 > >
21 > > Please let us know your thought on this.
22 >
23 > Just a completely different idea -- how about putting those libraries
24 > into different categories appropriate to the topic? We have a bunch of
25 > categories like dev-libs, media-libs, etc. -- and I wonder how many of
26 > the Qt libs would fit into each of them.
27
28 Nope. These modules derive from a single tarball and it makes much more
29 sense to put all of them in the same place.