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 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.
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 they can cover these.
