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From: "Dmitry S. Makovey" <dmitry@××××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] QT 4
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:43:07
Message-Id: 200603161234.55016.dmitry@athabascau.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] QT 4 by James
1 On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:11, James wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > Has anyone any experiences with developing software with QT4?
5 >
6 > checking whats available, with 'emerge -pv qt', I see:
7 > x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r8
8 >
9 > Nothing else... If I add x11-libs/qt to the package.keywords
10 > file, I get
11 > x11-libs/qt-4.1.1
12 >
13 > after editing the package.keyword file, If I run emerge -uDp world,
14 > it want to upgrade qt:
15 > Calculating world dependencies ...done!
16 > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.4-r9 [3.3.4-r8]
17
18 since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 (i.e.
19 require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any reasons to
20 bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and you can safely
21 go ahead and do
22 emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.1
23 but you packages wouldn't use it.
24
25 --
26 Dmitry Makovey
27 Web Systems Administrator
28 Athabasca University
29 (780) 675-6245

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[gentoo-user] Re: QT 4 James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>