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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag question (not total newbie)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:48:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11dc6905-91b8-55b8-532f-2b0631efcff3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11661662.SBB68D1yao@peak>

On 29/11/2016 14:26, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 28 Nov 2016 20:59:30 Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 
>> I'll consider switching to qt5 when I can rebuild _all_ my packages that
>> way.  Under no circumstances will I install both qt4 and qt5, that is a
>> recipe for madness.
> 
> I take it you don't run a KDE desktop with KMail-2. I do, and I found many 
> months ago that it was no longer possible to resist Qt-5. Since then I've been 
> running a sort of hybrid system in which, as Neil said, most components of KDE 
> have been moved to Qt-5 but KMail-2 is still months away.
> 
> Madness, while I wouldn't attempt to deny all possibility of it, seems not to 
> be evident here just yet.
> 


I too don't see much wrong with co-installing Qt4 and Qt5.

Different libs, different paths. Only real downside is disk space
consumed. It's not really much different from having both gth-2 and
gtk-3, or even gtk and qt

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-29 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-29  1:34 [gentoo-user] USE flag question (not total newbie) Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-29  1:55 ` Stroller
2016-11-29  2:15   ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-29  8:35     ` Neil Bothwick
2016-11-29  9:51     ` Alan McKinnon
2016-11-29  4:12 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2016-11-29  4:59   ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-29  8:37     ` Neil Bothwick
2016-11-29 12:26     ` Peter Humphrey
2016-11-29 12:48       ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2016-11-29 18:36         ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-30  5:44           ` J. Roeleveld
2016-11-30  8:31             ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-30  9:40               ` J. Roeleveld

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