On Sunday 18 January 2015 22:48:45 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > With my distro-packager hat on I realize the best solution would have been > > indeed using prefixed binaries > > Please make them suffixed (*-qt5), which is the established convention. > (Debian also used *-qt4 suffixes in the days where you shipped Qt 3 and 4 > side by side. So did other distros such as Mandriva.)
I actually wanted to mean suffixed. Typo mistake. > > That ship already sailed for Qt5, but we might want to revisit it for Qt6. > > I think that a rename can be phased in at any time, just shipping both > (upstream! Distributions like Fedora that never shipped unsuffixed binaries > in /usr/bin would of course still not do so, there's no change for those) > and recommending that all users move to the suffixed versions. It can easily > be done in 5.5. (Technically, even in 5.4.1 or 5.4.2, but that would be > against the policies for point releases.) Then it'd also be less of a > surprise (and encounter less resistance) to kick out the unsuffixed > binaries in Qt 6. [snip] Only if the issue is really reopened to debate here. As Thiago said, it was already decided in 2012. Now of course I would welcome this change. > > Thiago was very kind to accept some patches for this to happen. > > QTCHOOSER_GLOBAL_DIR is used to select between the available conf files > > even with hierarchy. > > Interesting approach. But in Fedora, we want to default to: > 1. the x86_64 -devel package if only it is installed, > 2. the i686 -devel package if only it is installed (even on an x86_64 > system), > 3. the x86_64 -devel package if both i686 and x86_64 are installed. > How to set QTCHOOSER_GLOBAL_DIR while honoring 2. is non-obvious. The variable can be a list of directories with precedence :) You just need to install the right stuff in the right place. Hacky, but it works. -- $ make war make: *** No rule to make target `war'. Stop. Try `love' instead David Gravereaux Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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