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2009/3/30 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>: |
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> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:24:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> No. qt is now a meta package and exists only to have the qt split |
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>> ebuilds as DEPENDencies, so it installs nothing. Unlike the kde split |
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>> ebuilds, the devs decided not to call it qt-meta and promptly confused |
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>> most of the KDE using community. |
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> I'd say that's a good thing, it saved having to change every ebuild |
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> depending on qt to depend on || (qt qt-meta) and is the same way the |
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> transition to split XOrg packages was handled. Te -meta addition to the |
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> KDE package names was a necessary kludge, because the split builds lived |
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> alongside the monolithic variants. |
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Calling it qt-meta instead of simply qt has nothing to do with this. |
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No ebuild should ever depend on the qt meta ebuild, instead it should |
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just depend on the needed parts that have been split up. So a |
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transition from the single qt dependency to the split up parts was |
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needed anyway and already took place. The only remaining reason for |
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the meta ebuild is that some people who want all of qt can simply |
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emerge the meta ebuild. |
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Regards, |
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Daniel |