Dmitry S. Makovey <dmitry <at> athabascau.ca> writes: > since packages you use (I assume KDE etc.) are not using qt4 (i.e. > require specifically qt3 branch) portage doesn't find any reasons to > bump version of qt. AFAIR Qt is a slotted package and you can safely > go ahead and do > emerge =x11-libs/qt-4.1.1 > but you packages wouldn't use it. Ok this kinda makes sense. But what exactly is a 'slotted package', how do I determine when a packages is slotted, and where do I read more about 'slotted'? I see this term used ofen, but, really have no clue exactly what slotted means or if it has various meanings based on the context of it's (verbiage) usage.
I'm looking at participating in developing software for remote control of hardware, SCADA, if that means anything to you. One of the guys is raving about QT4, so I need to install it, write a little code and play with it to form an opinion related to it's viability as a basis for open source SCADA development. Java is very nice, but many folks do not like JAVA, due to licenses issues...... Hence the interest in QT4. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
