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From: "vivo75@×××××.com" <vivo75@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:31:13
Message-Id: 50F80B1D.6000000@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new "qt" category by Ben de Groot
1 Il 17/01/2013 14:57, Ben de Groot ha scritto:
2 > Hi guys,
3 >
4 > Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages
5 > in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further
6 > in modularization, so we expect the number of packages to grow much
7 > more. We, the Gentoo Qt team, are of the opinion that the time has
8 > come to split all these out into their own category. This category is
9 > to be used for the various modules and applications that belong to the
10 > upstream Qt Framework only (these include e.g. assistant and
11 > linguist). Third-party applications should remain in the current
12 > categories.
13 >
14 > After some initial bikeshedding we came to the conclusion that naming
15 > the category simply "qt" is the most elegant solution.
16 +1 but use a '-' in the category qt-dev or qt-libs
17
18 > We will then
19 > also be dropping the qt- prefix in package names. This means
20 > x11-libs/qt-core will be moved to qt/core, and so on.
21 -1
22 Because it would be nice to move there also qwt* and possibly other libs.
23 qt-libs/qt-core make it easyer to separate them
24 >
25 > Please let us know your thought on this.
26 thanks for asking