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Hi guys, |
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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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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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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |
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