Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox documentation
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:50:32
Message-Id: 20161209085005.000f1515@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox documentation by "J. Roeleveld"
1 On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 06:12:03 +0000, J. Roeleveld wrote:
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3 > >VirtualBox is a Qt app and *requires* Qt to get a GUI. There is no
4 > >option for GTK
5 > >
6 > >USE="qt4"
7 > >or in more recent versions ebuilds (or ~arch)
8 > >USE="qt5"
9 > >as appropriate
10 >
11 > USE="-qt4" means qt5 I think.
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13 The ebuild for VB4 builds it headless with -qt4. There is no choice of
14 qt4 or qt5, it's qt or headless, only the version of qt used varies
15 between VB releases.
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19 Neil Bothwick
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21 Software: (n.) That which hardware manufacturers can blame for physical
22 failures.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox documentation Fernando Rodriguez <cyklonite@×××××.com>