[gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Francisco Ares
I have qt-3.3.8b-r1 and qt-4.4.2 I tried qt-assistant-4.4.2-r1, and it showed me no docs. Then I tried to reinstall qt-4.4.2, looking for some use-flag I might have missed, like doc or something like that. The emerge process of qt-4.4.2 goes like that: # emerge -v =x11-libs/qt-4.4.2 These

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 March 2009 08:13:33 Francisco Ares wrote: I have qt-3.3.8b-r1 and qt-4.4.2 I tried qt-assistant-4.4.2-r1, and it showed me no docs. [snip] Nothing showing the traditional compile and install procedure. Is this a bug? No. qt is now a meta package and exists only to have the qt

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:24:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: No. qt is now a meta package and exists only to have the qt split ebuilds as DEPENDencies, so it installs nothing. Unlike the kde split ebuilds, the devs decided not to call it qt-meta and promptly confused most of the KDE using

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/3/30 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:24:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: No. qt is now a meta package and exists only to have the qt split ebuilds as DEPENDencies, so it installs nothing. Unlike the kde split ebuilds, the devs decided not to call it qt-meta and

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Francisco Ares
Thankyou guys Francisco

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:38:48 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Calling it qt-meta instead of simply qt has nothing to do with this. No ebuild should ever depend on the qt meta ebuild, instead it should just depend on the needed parts that have been split up. So a transition from the single qt

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/3/30 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:38:48 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Calling it qt-meta instead of simply qt has nothing to do with this. No ebuild should ever depend on the qt meta ebuild, instead it should just depend on the needed parts that have been

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/3/30 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:53:30 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: So as far as I see the new qt meta ebuild wasn't needed at any time. So every ebuild, in the tree and all overlays, was updated before the split ebuilds were introduced? I don't know the

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:17:00 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: So every ebuild, in the tree and all overlays, was updated before the split ebuilds were introduced? I don't know the exact progress but I think the split ebuilds were introduced masked, then the dependencies have been adjusted

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:53:30 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: So as far as I see the new qt meta ebuild wasn't needed at any time. So every ebuild, in the tree and all overlays, was updated before the split ebuilds were introduced? -- Neil Bothwick You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/3/30 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:17:00 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: So every ebuild, in the tree and all overlays, was updated before the split ebuilds were introduced? I don't know the exact progress but I think the split ebuilds were introduced

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-4.4.3 won't install any files

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:58:43 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: OK, so the meta ebuild is just a safety net for those running ebuilds not in the portage tree. Probably, but even overlays should consider changing the dependencies and use the advantage of the split ebuilds ;-) Absolutely, but