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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: About the Qt 4.7.3 bump
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 12:45:55
Message-Id: iqe0bq$9n$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About the Qt 4.7.3 bump by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On 05/11/2011 03:32 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
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5 > Dne 11.5.2011 13:05, Nikos Chantziaras napsal(a):
6 >> Why did the bump to Qt 4.7.3 happen? AFAIK, it only contains Symbian
7 >> changes, and Gentoo does not run on the Symbian platform.
8 >>
9 >>
10 > With this approach you could ask why we bump each kde release.
11 >
12 > As most of the apps does not change at all.
13
14 I don't know :-P Avoiding needless bumps was, IIRC, one of the reasons
15 Gentoo uses split ebuilds. Anyway, I mentioned this because in the
16 past, at least one time, a version bump for Qt was omitted exactly
17 because there were no changes.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: About the Qt 4.7.3 bump Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>