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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support issue solved
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:18:05
Message-Id: 200907010916.23264.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] qt3support issue solved by Anthony Mutiso
1 No, you *add* qt4 to your make.conf if you need it.
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3 You probably still have packages that use qt3, so unless you want to unmerge
4 them...
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6 Think of it this way. Nobody in their right mind will ever get qt and gtk+
7 confused. You can have both and intermingle them, and the flags do not depend
8 on each other.
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10 Qt and Qt4 are just like that, they are that different. You cannot upgrade a
11 Qt app to use Qt4 (unless you are willing to use some compat layer), just as
12 you cannot upgrade a Qt app to use GTK+
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16 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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19 On Tuesday 30 June 2009 22:24:32 Anthony Mutiso wrote:
20 > So for those that *had* qt in make.conf, (like me), the right thing to
21 > do is to change it to qt4?
22 >
23 > Alan McKinnon wrote:
24 > > Yes. The difference is huge.
25 > >
26 > > KDE-3 uses Qt
27 > > KDE-4 uses Qt4
28 > >
29 > >
30 > > They are so different that a name change from Qt to something else would
31 > > be entirely acceptable.