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Just a quick update on the happens in the x11-libs/qt world, as I'm introducing some |
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changes that will probably affect people in the not-to-distant future. |
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Since Qt is starting to get rather, ahem, big, I've decided that with the |
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introduction of version 4.4 it's a good time to try and split it down into more |
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manageable chunks. I'm introducing a few new packages that are designed to break |
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out some of the major pieces into their own packages. I present: |
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x11-libs/qt |
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x11-libs/qt-dbus ( Breaking out into its own package ) |
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x11-libs/qt-phonon ( New for 4.4, a wrapper around various sound modules ) |
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x11-libs/qt-qt3support ( Breaking out into its own package ) |
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x11-libs/qt-webkit ( New for 4.4, Qt's integrated WebKit support ) |
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There may be some more of these as time goes on and necessity/desire dictate. |
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The main motivation behind doing this is to make the package a little more |
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manageable, in that it's not one huge monolithic package with a million use flags |
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dictating which modules get built. This should make dependant package maintenance |
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nicer, as you can just depend on the necessary packages and not have to resort to |
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the built_with_use trickery that we all love so much. |
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As well, we gain in the same vein as the split KDE style packages, that updates and |
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security fixes don't require a recompilation of all of the non-affected modules. |
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There are still lots of goodies that need to be tested. I'm sure there are |
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edge-case USE flag scenarios that may need to be accounted for, performance tweaks |
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to be made, and other things I haven't thought of. If you're into bleeding edge, |
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I'd love to have you try out some of these new packages and see if you've got any |
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failures or ideas for making them better. |
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As usual, this stuff is all package.masked right now pending lots of tweaks and |
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changes in the short term. My guess is that it will hit portage proper by the end |
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of 1Q2008. Hopefully we can have it all happy by then. |
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Feel free to file any bug reports you can find or think of. Patches are especially |
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encouraged. |
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Thanks, |
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Caleb |
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