Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Dale
Ben de Groot wrote: > On 20 January 2013 21:35, Dale wrote: >> Same here. I have had to re-emerge qt packages several times myself. >> It seems that when I do, I have to do them all one at a time too. > In which case you're better off with something like: >emerge -a1 `eix --only-names -IC qt`

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:59:49 +0800 as excerpted: > On 20 January 2013 21:35, Dale wrote: >> Same here. I have had to re-emerge qt packages several times myself. >> It seems that when I do, I have to do them all one at a time too. > > In which case you're better off with some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Ben de Groot
On 20 January 2013 21:35, Dale wrote: > Same here. I have had to re-emerge qt packages several times myself. > It seems that when I do, I have to do them all one at a time too. In which case you're better off with something like: emerge -a1 `eix --only-names -IC qt` -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Dale
Duncan wrote: > Ben de Groot posted on Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:24:14 +0800 as excerpted: > >> On 20 January 2013 00:48, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >>> *** (VERY strongly!) Please avoid namespace pollution! Don't drop the >>> hyphenated qt-pkg names. As a user, most of the time I DO only re

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:24:14 +0800 as excerpted: > On 20 January 2013 00:48, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> *** (VERY strongly!) Please avoid namespace pollution! Don't drop the >> hyphenated qt-pkg names. As a user, most of the time I DO only refer >> to the packa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Ben de Groot
On 20 January 2013 17:09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 20/01/13 10:39, Ben de Groot wrote: >> There is no need for multiple qt categories. We want everything that >> the upstream Qt Project considers to be part of the Qt Framework to be >> in one category. Besides that there are only a handful of

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/01/13 10:39, Ben de Groot wrote: On 20 January 2013 15:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Just a user with a suggestion here. Since portage already has kde-base and kde-misc, why not qt-base and qt-misc (and qt-something is the need arises.) Qt5 will have standard core modules and extensions.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Ben de Groot
On 20 January 2013 15:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Just a user with a suggestion here. Since portage already has kde-base and > kde-misc, why not qt-base and qt-misc (and qt-something is the need arises.) > Qt5 will have standard core modules and extensions. qt-base and qt-misc > look like the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Ben de Groot
On 20 January 2013 00:48, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > * In general, yes, I'm in favor of a dedicated qt-* category, but... Good :-) > *** (VERY strongly!) Please avoid namespace pollution! Don't drop the > hyphenated qt-pkg names. As a user, most of the time I DO only refer to > the

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/01/13 15:57, Ben de Groot wrote: Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library packages in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a lot further in modularization, so we expect the number of packages to grow much more. We, the Gentoo Qt team, are of the opinion t

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-19 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:14:48 +0800 as excerpted: > On 19 January 2013 21:46, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> Maybe lib-qt ? dev-qt sounds confusing to me too, what's "dev" about >> it? > > These are libraries and applications that are used by developers of > end-user applications. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-17 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/01/13 15:25, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Where would you place the 300ish KDE core packages then? In whatever generic category they belong. I understand that the monolithic nature makes it difficult from a maintainer POV, but from a design POV it

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new "qt" category

2013-01-17 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 18/01/2013 01:11, Alexander Berntsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 - -1 here. It's a too specific category name. I can appreciate it easing the headaches for the maintainers, but from a design POV I dislike it. (For the record I also dislike KDE/GNOME/XFCE-categories