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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Yet Another Multi-QT Scheme
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:01:00
Message-Id: 200110161801.UAA29234@mailgw1.netvision.net.il
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Yet Another Multi-QT Scheme by Karl Trygve Kalleberg
1 On Tuesday 16 October 2001 14:00, you wrote:
2 > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:37:14 +0200
3 >
4 > Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o> wrote:
5 > > Hi all,
6 > >
7 > > The current (latest) scheme for the qt /etc/env.d files has multi-qt
8 >
9 > support
10 >
11 > > with regard to major qt versions (2,3,...) but not minor versions (2.2,
12 > > 2.3...). This is my proposition for adding this
13 >
14 > Stupid question: Why would we really need this ?
15
16 Different minor versions of qt are not binarily compatible. Someone who has
17 kde compiled for e.g. qt-2.2.3 and upgrades to qt-2.3.1 needs to keep his old
18 qt, or he'll have to recompile all his kde.
19
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21
22 Dan Armak
23 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
24 Matan, Israel