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From: James Ausmus <james.ausmus@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:14:27
Message-Id: b79f23071002100913l79f46562w3b23e99d84cf1fc@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)??? by Stroller
1 On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>wrote:
2
3 > Hi there,
4 >
5 > Upgrading some packages today I saw:
6 >
7 > Qt3 is deprecated and unsupported, both upstream and by the Gentoo Qt
8 > Project. x11-libs/qt:3 will be removed from portage soon. See
9 >
10 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f988855f798764822704bbbd743ab6f7.xml
11 > You are encouraged to use Qt4 instead.
12 >
13 > However when I try to resolve this, I find that only 3.3 versions are
14 > marked as stable:
15 >
16 > $ eix x11-libs/qt$
17 > [I] x11-libs/qt
18 > Available versions:
19 > (3) 3.3.8b-r1 3.3.8b-r2
20 > (4) [M]4.5.3 [M]~4.6.1
21 > {cups dbus debug doc examples firebird immqt immqt-bc ipv6 kde mysql
22 > nas nis odbc opengl postgres qt3support sqlite xinerama}
23 > Installed versions: 3.3.8b-r2(3)(14:05:56 10/02/10)(cups doc examples
24 > -debug -firebird -immqt -immqt-bc -ipv6 -mysql -nas -nis -odbc -opengl
25 > -postgres -sqlite -xinerama)
26 > Homepage: http://qt.nokia.com/
27 > Description: The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application
28 > development framework
29 >
30 > $
31 >
32 >
33 > Is anyone else seeing this, please?
34 >
35 > The message posted to Gentoo-dev suggests that Qt3 is going away right
36 > about NOW, but this doesn't seem to add up to what I'm seeing.
37 >
38 > Thanks in advance for any comments,
39 >
40 >
41 It's monolithic vs. split ebuilds - Qt4 in Gentoo has gone to a modular
42 ebuild system - the monolithic Qt4 build is not supported.
43
44 Try:
45
46 eix -C x11-libs qt-
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49 HTH-
50
51 James
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55 > Stroller.
56 >
57 >
58 >