On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:
> Hi there, > > Upgrading some packages today I saw: > > Qt3 is deprecated and unsupported, both upstream and by the Gentoo Qt > Project. x11-libs/qt:3 will be removed from portage soon. See > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f988855f798764822704bbbd743ab6f7.xml > You are encouraged to use Qt4 instead. > > However when I try to resolve this, I find that only 3.3 versions are > marked as stable: > > $ eix x11-libs/qt$ > [I] x11-libs/qt > Available versions: > (3) 3.3.8b-r1 3.3.8b-r2 > (4) [M]4.5.3 [M]~4.6.1 > {cups dbus debug doc examples firebird immqt immqt-bc ipv6 kde mysql > nas nis odbc opengl postgres qt3support sqlite xinerama} > Installed versions: 3.3.8b-r2(3)(14:05:56 10/02/10)(cups doc examples > -debug -firebird -immqt -immqt-bc -ipv6 -mysql -nas -nis -odbc -opengl > -postgres -sqlite -xinerama) > Homepage: http://qt.nokia.com/ > Description: The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application > development framework > > $ > > > Is anyone else seeing this, please? > > The message posted to Gentoo-dev suggests that Qt3 is going away right > about NOW, but this doesn't seem to add up to what I'm seeing. > > Thanks in advance for any comments, > > It's monolithic vs. split ebuilds - Qt4 in Gentoo has gone to a modular ebuild system - the monolithic Qt4 build is not supported. Try: eix -C x11-libs qt- HTH- James > Stroller. > > >
