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2013/1/19 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:57:16 +0800 |
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> Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> 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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> > Please let us know your thought on this. |
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> Just a completely different idea -- how about putting those libraries |
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> into different categories appropriate to the topic? We have a bunch of |
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> categories like dev-libs, media-libs, etc. -- and I wonder how many of |
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> the Qt libs would fit into each of them. |
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> This would be the right thing to do, or the correct way. |
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Most would really hate it (me too) |
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