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John Richard Moser wrote: |
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> Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> | On Monday 27 September 2004 01:19, Thomas Weidner wrote: |
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> |>As test i compiled kdelibs-3.3.0 with my Qt ebuild installed. |
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> |>./configure finds Qt without any extra argument, but the kde ebuilds |
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> |>(or eclasses) surely would need to be updated. |
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> |>I'm no experienced ebuild author, but i was very displeased with the |
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> |>current situation, please post your comments and ideas. |
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> | I'm not longer in the kde team, but I don't give much chance to qt being |
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> | offered this way. There is a reason that qt is the way it is. If you |
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> | wrote the ebuild for your own use it is ok, but the implementation is not |
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> | the problem here, it is the policy. |
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> ~From the POV of someone who has no chance nor will to ever be a Gentoo |
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> If it works, demonstrate it to upstream (TrollTech). If it breaks |
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> things it'll probably never go into Gentoo or Qt mainline; though |
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> compatibility work (symlinks all over the damn place) could provide a |
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> migration environment. |
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Qt3 tries to fit into a FHS environment. it's installing several version |
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of Qt in parallell (like Qt2 and Qt3) what makes things hard, and forced |
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gentoo into /usr/qt/${VERSION} (until now? ;-) ) |
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