Quoting Philipp Überbacher (2011-12-22 00:38:15) >Quoting Ionut Biru (2011-12-22 00:12:04) >>On 12/22/2011 01:09 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: >>> Quoting Andrea Scarpino (2011-12-19 19:17:08) >>>> Hi all, >>>> the last Qt major release is in [testing]. >>>> For the upstream changes see the Qt ChangeLog[1]. >>>> >>>> About the Arch Linux packaging, the libqtwebkit library isn't shipped with >>>> the >>>> qt package anymore, but with the new qtwebkit package. >>>> >>>> We rebuilt our packages in [extra] and [community] to add this new >>>> dependence. >>>> If you find a package which links to libQtWebKit.so.4, but doesn't depend >>>> on >>>> qtwebkit, please report us the bug using bugs.archlinux.org. >>>> >>>> AUR maintainers are encouraged to check their packages to see if they >>>> links to >>>> libQtWebKit.so.4, then add the new dependence. >>>> >>>> [1] http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/12/15/qt-4-8-0-released/ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Andrea >>> >>> Seems like there's another new dependence, qtwebkit pulls in phonon, >>> this didn't happen when it was part of qt. Why is this? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Philipp >>> >>> >> >>because in the past he didn't built html5 support in qt. It would be >>insane(from kde perspective) to have gstreamer as dependency for qt :) >> >>-- >>Ionuț > >I find it strange that suddenly phonon is forced down every Qt users >throat while phonon is already superseded by other APIs. Apparently >those newer APIs use gstreamer as backend on Linux. > >"Even though support for Phonon in Qt will continue for the 4.x series, >Qt has already replaced Phonon with QtMultimedia and QtMobility." >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonon_%28KDE%29 > >I simply don't know what I'd need phonon for, the Qt audio/video >programs I use use different audio/video APIs anyway (mplayer, jack). >It's just yet another unneeded thing from my pov. > >Regards, >Philipp
Well, guess I have no other choice than to install phonon then. I just hope I won't get beeps and bops all over the place and need half of KDE to turn it off.
