On Mon, 08 Aug 2022, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 2:32 AM Jan Rękorajski <bagg...@pld-linux.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Jan Palus wrote: > > > > > On 22.07.2022 11:03, Jan Rękorajski wrote: > > > > Can someone explain why are we using split sources/packages for Qt? > > > > > > > > I want to add Qt6 and building from the monolythic source is soooo much > > > > easier. No need for bootstrap, no intertwined build dependencies, just > > > > configure -> build -> build docs -> install. > > > > > > > > And unless there is a _very_ good reason to use split sources I'm just > > > > going > > > > to add a single qt6 package that builds everything (we can still > > > > subpackage > > > > bineries as we want them). > > > > > > As long as each component is bcondized and there are no "to the exact > > > release" dependencies then I guess it's fine. Doing qtwebengine (and all > > > the other components) rebuild each time qtbase needs a small packaging > > > adjustment would be tough on arm, though I'd understand if nobody cared > > > about my use case. > > > > FYI build time on builders is 1.5 hour without qtwebengine and 7 hours > > with qtwebengine. > > > > I don't know how it looks on arm, but IMHO no-webengine bcond should be > > enough? > > > > The reason most distros don't use the monolithic source is that it's a > pain to apply patches to it. Qt doesn't actually get developed that > way, and backporting fixes is more of a pain if you use the monolithic > build.
Well, we don't have resources to play with backporting changes. Besides I saw have ex. Fedora packages qt and it is IMO a joke. They don't build docs, they don't build internal deps, so yeah, it's easy, but it's half of the functionality. I'd rather have a package without the backports, but with all bells and whistles, that is easy to build, rather than either build pain on half baked. -- Jan Rękorajski | PLD/Linux SysAdm | baggins<at>pld-linux.org | http://www.pld-linux.org/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en