Hi guys, 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 that the time has come to split all these out into their own category. This category is to be used for the various modules and applications that belong to the upstream Qt Framework only (these include e.g. assistant and linguist). Third-party applications should remain in the current categories.
After some initial bikeshedding we came to the conclusion that naming the category simply "qt" is the most elegant solution. We will then also be dropping the qt- prefix in package names. This means x11-libs/qt-core will be moved to qt/core, and so on. Please let us know your thought on this. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
