On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:38:48 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Calling it qt-meta instead of simply qt has nothing to do with this. > No ebuild should ever depend on the qt meta ebuild, instead it should > just depend on the needed parts that have been split up. So a > transition from the single qt dependency to the split up parts was > needed anyway and already took place. The only remaining reason for > the meta ebuild is that some people who want all of qt can simply > emerge the meta ebuild.
During the transition, there will be lots of packages depending on qt. Your argument becomes true when all previous qt:4 ebuilds vanish from the tree, and so do all ebuilds depending on them. Until then, the meta ebuild is required, as it was with XOrg. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 45: Resident alien
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