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From: Christoph Junghans <ottxor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:23:27
Message-Id: CANgp9kx4h00tWnTUr+T=H4g0TamSUwpf4JwNObr9dgPCW5dWyw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category by Ben de Groot
1 2013/1/17 Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>:
2 > Hi guys,
3 >
4 > Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages
5 > in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further
6 > in modularization, so we expect the number of packages to grow much
7 > more. We, the Gentoo Qt team, are of the opinion that the time has
8 > come to split all these out into their own category. This category is
9 > to be used for the various modules and applications that belong to the
10 > upstream Qt Framework only (these include e.g. assistant and
11 > linguist). Third-party applications should remain in the current
12 > categories.
13 >
14 > After some initial bikeshedding we came to the conclusion that naming
15 > the category simply "qt" is the most elegant solution. We will then
16 > also be dropping the qt- prefix in package names. This means
17 > x11-libs/qt-core will be moved to qt/core, and so on.
18 -1
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20 I don't like the idea of emerging gui instead qt-qui.
21 >
22 > Please let us know your thought on this.
23 > --
24 > Cheers,
25 >
26 > Ben | yngwin
27 > Gentoo developer
28 > Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
29 >
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34 Christoph Junghans
35 http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>