On 20 January 2013 05:03, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > 130119 Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 19 January 2013 21:46, Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> 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. > > They are also encountered by users when updating KDE etc.
Not directly, only as dependencies. A simple world update will do what is needed. And otherwise this is more precise and concise: emerge -au1 `eix --only-names -IC qt` >> If there is too much opposition to a simple "qt" category >> -- at least there seems to be some quite vocal opposition -- , >> then dev-qt is in my eyes the next best alternative. > > 'qt' alone is inconsistent with the rest of the tree. Not really. We already have virtual/. >> A third option we came up with is qt-framework. > > Too long to type & again no parallel in the existing tree. But closer to upstream naming. >> Somewhat comparable categories in the current tree >> are dev-dotnet and gnustep-{base,libs}. > > Flame-eyes' suggestion is simple, consistent & involves least change : > 'x11-qt/qt-core' 'x11-qt/qt-gui' etc. Please do it like that. Most of Qt has nothing whatsoever to do with X11 directly, and that will increasingly be true for Qt5 with its Wayland support. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin