[arch-dev-public] Migration to QT4

[Eric Belanger]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Pierre Schmitz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> as I mentioned some time ago I want to move qt4 to [extra] soon. I am quite
> busy right now; so there is some delay but I am still working on this.
>
> Before committing my changes to [testing] I want to discuss the upgrade path
> again. (because it will be some work to revert this changes if it was a bad
> idea after all)
>
> qt and qt-docs will be updated to version 4. They will replace the packages
> from community and provide qt4 as well. Like the community package they will
> be installed into /usr instead of /opt. We do not need any script
> in /etc/profile.d then.
>
> Version 3 of qt will be packaged as qt3 and qt3-docs. It will stay in /opt and
> still will have a profile script; but it will be disabled per default. All
> packages directly depending on qt version 3 will be repackaged to depend on
> qt3. The PKGBUILD have to source the profile.
>
> Packages like KDE and others depending on kdelibs do not need to be rebuilt.
>
> Pierre
>
>

In the previous discussions, it was suggested to split qt4 into 3 
packages: qt4core qt4-x11 and qt4qt3support
Is it still the case?  From the above upgrade path, it doesn't seem so.

Eric


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