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?
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