I know that appmenu-qt technically depends on qt4 being installed, but if it will only be used by a qt4 app, and such an app would itself depend on the qt4 packages, would there be any harm in making appmenu-qt just *not* depend on qt4 packages itself?
Michael Hall [email protected] On 03/18/2016 01:21 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey there, > > The only reason the Xenial Ubuntu Desktop iso currently has qt4 still > included is because the "integration components for softwares using that > toolkit" are Recommends (appmenu-qt, sni-qt, fcitx-frontend-qt4). > > The default installation has no actual use for those but removing them > would mean that an Unity user installing some qt4 software wouldn't get > integrated menus/indicators/input method. > > We could make qt4 recommends them, but then they would be pulled in on > other desktops environment where they are not needed ... how would other > flavors feel about that? > If that's not an option does somebody have a better suggestion/idea how > we could get those installed for Unity users when required? > > Unsure if that's still something we might still want to do this cycle, > I'm at least mentioning it in case somebody feels like working on those > changes... > > Cheers, > Sebastien Bacher > > -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
