2013/1/19 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org>
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:57:16 +0800 > Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> 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 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. > > Just a completely different idea -- how about putting those libraries > into different categories appropriate to the topic? We have a bunch of > categories like dev-libs, media-libs, etc. -- and I wonder how many of > the Qt libs would fit into each of them. > > This would be the right thing to do, or the correct way. Most would really hate it (me too)
