From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J5MJV-0002AU-Nv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:23:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBKEMONt019385; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:22:24 GMT Received: from spunkymail-a11.g.dreamhost.com (balanced.mail.policyd.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.119]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBKEI2m0011808 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:18:03 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (CPE-18-137.dsl.OntheNet.net [203.144.18.137]) by spunkymail-a11.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 653B8B82AC for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:17:59 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Update: qt-4 From: Patrick Ohearn To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <33964.192.168.2.159.1198159516.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> References: <33964.192.168.2.159.1198159516.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:16:45 +1000 Message-Id: <1198160205.20472.0.camel@asmodeus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.21.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e9999c5-53d0-4c5c-b552-9384d76526e9 X-Archives-Hash: 95a7e294d0e3650867cbf60579239b8b On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:05 -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote: > Just a quick update on the happens in the x11-libs/qt world, as I'm introducing some > changes that will probably affect people in the not-to-distant future. > > Since Qt is starting to get rather, ahem, big, I've decided that with the > introduction of version 4.4 it's a good time to try and split it down into more > manageable chunks. I'm introducing a few new packages that are designed to break > out some of the major pieces into their own packages. I present: > > x11-libs/qt > x11-libs/qt-dbus ( Breaking out into its own package ) > x11-libs/qt-phonon ( New for 4.4, a wrapper around various sound modules ) > x11-libs/qt-qt3support ( Breaking out into its own package ) > x11-libs/qt-webkit ( New for 4.4, Qt's integrated WebKit support ) > > There may be some more of these as time goes on and necessity/desire dictate. > > The main motivation behind doing this is to make the package a little more > manageable, in that it's not one huge monolithic package with a million use flags > dictating which modules get built. This should make dependant package maintenance > nicer, as you can just depend on the necessary packages and not have to resort to > the built_with_use trickery that we all love so much. > > As well, we gain in the same vein as the split KDE style packages, that updates and > security fixes don't require a recompilation of all of the non-affected modules. > > There are still lots of goodies that need to be tested. I'm sure there are > edge-case USE flag scenarios that may need to be accounted for, performance tweaks > to be made, and other things I haven't thought of. If you're into bleeding edge, > I'd love to have you try out some of these new packages and see if you've got any > failures or ideas for making them better. > > As usual, this stuff is all package.masked right now pending lots of tweaks and > changes in the short term. My guess is that it will hit portage proper by the end > of 1Q2008. Hopefully we can have it all happy by then. > > Feel free to file any bug reports you can find or think of. Patches are especially > encouraged. > > Thanks, > Caleb > How about splitting qmake out to help with the WebKitGtk stuff, so we don't have to dep on qt? Or can't this be done as easy as the other parts? -- Patrick Ohearn Email: pat@ge3k.net XMMP: pat@ge3k.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list