2013/1/19 Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:57:16 +0800
> Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages
> > in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further
> > in modularization, so we expect the number of packages to grow much
> > more. We, the Gentoo Qt team, are of the opinion that the time has
> > come to split all these out into their own category. This category is
> > to be used for the various modules and applications that belong to the
> > upstream Qt Framework only (these include e.g. assistant and
> > linguist). Third-party applications should remain in the current
> > categories.
> >
> > After some initial bikeshedding we came to the conclusion that naming
> > the category simply "qt" is the most elegant solution. We will then
> > also be dropping the qt- prefix in package names. This means
> > x11-libs/qt-core will be moved to qt/core, and so on.
> >
> > Please let us know your thought on this.
>
> Just a completely different idea -- how about putting those libraries
> into different categories appropriate to the topic? We have a bunch of
> categories like dev-libs, media-libs, etc. -- and I wonder how many of
> the Qt libs would fit into each of them.
>
> This would be the right thing to do, or the correct way.
Most would really hate it (me too)