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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:10:46
Message-Id: 201002110907.46427.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)??? by Stroller
1 On Wednesday 10 February 2010 22:51:00 Stroller wrote:
2 > On 10 Feb 2010, at 20:27, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > ...
4 > > The qt- subpackages are very much alive and stable:
5 > >
6 > > $ eix qt-gui
7 > > [I] x11-libs/qt-gui
8 > >
9 > > Available versions: (4) 4.5.3-r2 (~)4.6.1 **4.6.9999-r1[1]
10 > >
11 > > **4.9999-
12 > > r1[1]
13 > >
14 > > {+accessibility aqua cups dbus debug exceptions +glib gtk
15 > >
16 > > +kde-qt mng
17 > > nas nis pch qt3support raster (+)stable-branch tiff xinerama}
18 > >
19 > > Installed versions: 4.6.1(4)(23:21:45 09/02/10)(accessibility
20 > >
21 > > cups dbus
22 > > glib gtk mng pch qt3support tiff xinerama -aqua -debug -nas -nis -
23 > > raster)
24 > >
25 > > Homepage: http://qt.nokia.com/
26 > > Description: The GUI module for the Qt toolkit
27 > >
28 > > You do not need to emerge qt. Just emerge the stuff that uses qt and
29 > > let
30 > > portage pick the bits needed.
31 >
32 > I wasn't aware that x11-libs/qt-gui was the "new name" for x11-libs/
33 > qt. Especially since I had both installed. However I have now
34 > unmerrged x11-libs/qt and `emerge -pvu world` does not show me short
35 > of anything, so I thank you for your help.
36
37 It's not.
38 qt is a deprectaed meta package.
39 qt-gui is one of the split ebuilds that form part of the whole of Qt. There
40 are about another 10 or so.
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45 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com