Is there a strategy for including Qt4 into ArchLinux?
I have the following suggestions
1.
a) provide a qt4 package
b) apps for qt4 will have 'depends=("qt4")'
2.
a) release qt3-3.3.4-9 with "provides=(qt)"
b) change gradually ALL qt3 dependant apps to 'depends=("qt3")';
c) release qt3-3.3.4-10 with no "provides=(qt)"
d) check if anything breaks (if it does, return to b) )
e) release qt-4.0.0-1 and the apps live happily ever after
3) provide a script for hacking pacman's DB and automatically change the
dependencies of Qt apps to qt3, so that pacman would not download all the new
versions of the packages (could be tricky)
The 1st solution is the easiest. For the short term, it is probably best.
For the long term, consdering the "ArchLinux way" of being bleeding edge, I
think the 2nd is more appropriate.
The final solution might be a combination of the 3 ideas above.
Any official decision on this?
Mircea
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