Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> [...]
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>> I'd like to try re-package qt5 with submodules, and drop QtWebEngine.
>> As same as Debian and NixOS did.
>
> And Fedora. Ricardo found this insightful discussion:
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> http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2015-February/019960.html
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> +1 for removing QtWebEngine and thus have a snippet that removes the
> bundled Chromium altogether.
Well, by build with submodule tarballs [1], Qt5 will split into various
packages:
qtbase, qtsvg, qtx11extras, etc.
The current monolithic qt package will be deprecated.
It seems that some hacks are needed, basically:
- when build:
Make a 'qt.conf' and union the releated 'lib' and 'mkspecs' for
qmake. Should do in 'qmake-build-system'.
FYI: nixpkgs's recipes [2] and qmake reference [3].
- when run:
Set 'QT_PLUGIN_PATH' and other variables with wrapper and/or
profile envs.
And I believe this have to be done if we want to package KDE5,
since KF5 is a set of plugins for Qt.
[1] http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.4/5.4.2/submodules/
[2]
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-5/5.4/setup-hook.sh
[3] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmake-environment-reference.html#qmakespec
