>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Ben de Groot wrote: > Presently we already have a good number of split qt-* library > packages in x11-libs. With the arrival of Qt5 upstream has gone a > lot further in modularization, so we expect the number of packages > to grow much more. We, the Gentoo Qt team, are of the opinion that > the time has come to split all these out into their own category. > This category is to be used for the various modules and applications > that belong to the upstream Qt Framework only (these include e.g. > assistant and linguist). Third-party applications should remain in > the current categories.
> After some initial bikeshedding we came to the conclusion that > naming the category simply "qt" is the most elegant solution. We > will then also be dropping the qt- prefix in package names. This > means x11-libs/qt-core will be moved to qt/core, and so on. > Please let us know your thought on this. -1 Please don't invent a new naming scheme. All existing categories follow a major-minor naming (except for virtual, and that one has historical reasons). Apart from this, I also don't think that naming it qt-* would be justified. Why can't things stay in x11-libs, together with other toolkits? Ulrich
