On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I think we really need to either stabilize 4.8.6, or backport
> qtchooser/multilib/etc to the current stable version.
>
Backporting is not an option. The introduction of multilib support in
qt4 required extensive changes to the eclass (substantial portions of
code were rewritten) and the ebuilds.
Therefore stabilizing 4.8.6-r1 is the way to go. We had surprisingly
few regressions, but the ones that are still unsolved are proving
quite hard to debug. Please help with the blockers of bug #530238.
As usual, at least for me, the problem is the lack of time for gentoo
development, plus the fact that very few people are actively working
on qt{4,5} packaging (kensington, me, and more recently yngwin).
> qt is a pretty significant package to have break with multilib, and
> trying to run qt-5 on a stable system is already a nightmare with the
> qtchooser switch (in my case I ended up abandoning qt5 as I didn't
> need it that badly).
>
I'm not sure how qt5 is relevant to this discussion.
Thanks,
Davide
