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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:25:15
Message-Id: 20090330092409.64a90e0e@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files by Alan McKinnon
1 On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:24:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > No. qt is now a meta package and exists only to have the qt split
4 > ebuilds as DEPENDencies, so it installs nothing. Unlike the kde split
5 > ebuilds, the devs decided not to call it qt-meta and promptly confused
6 > most of the KDE using community.
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8 I'd say that's a good thing, it saved having to change every ebuild
9 depending on qt to depend on || (qt qt-meta) and is the same way the
10 transition to split XOrg packages was handled. Te -meta addition to the
11 KDE package names was a necessary kludge, because the split builds lived
12 alongside the monolithic variants.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Committee (noun): A group of people spending hours taking minutes

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Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>