On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:05 -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote: > Just a quick update on the happens in the x11-libs/qt world, as I'm > introducing some > changes that will probably affect people in the not-to-distant future. > > Since Qt is starting to get rather, ahem, big, I've decided that with the > introduction of version 4.4 it's a good time to try and split it down into > more > manageable chunks. I'm introducing a few new packages that are designed to > break > out some of the major pieces into their own packages. I present: > > x11-libs/qt > x11-libs/qt-dbus ( Breaking out into its own package ) > x11-libs/qt-phonon ( New for 4.4, a wrapper around various sound modules ) > x11-libs/qt-qt3support ( Breaking out into its own package ) > x11-libs/qt-webkit ( New for 4.4, Qt's integrated WebKit support ) > > There may be some more of these as time goes on and necessity/desire dictate. > > The main motivation behind doing this is to make the package a little more > manageable, in that it's not one huge monolithic package with a million use > flags > dictating which modules get built. This should make dependant package > maintenance > nicer, as you can just depend on the necessary packages and not have to > resort to > the built_with_use trickery that we all love so much. > > As well, we gain in the same vein as the split KDE style packages, that > updates and > security fixes don't require a recompilation of all of the non-affected > modules. > > There are still lots of goodies that need to be tested. I'm sure there are > edge-case USE flag scenarios that may need to be accounted for, performance > tweaks > to be made, and other things I haven't thought of. If you're into bleeding > edge, > I'd love to have you try out some of these new packages and see if you've got > any > failures or ideas for making them better. > > As usual, this stuff is all package.masked right now pending lots of tweaks > and > changes in the short term. My guess is that it will hit portage proper by > the end > of 1Q2008. Hopefully we can have it all happy by then. > > Feel free to file any bug reports you can find or think of. Patches are > especially > encouraged. > > Thanks, > Caleb > How about splitting qmake out to help with the WebKitGtk stuff, so we don't have to dep on qt?
Or can't this be done as easy as the other parts? -- Patrick Ohearn Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XMMP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
