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
next prev parent 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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