RFC: Splitting Qt4 packages and implications of this

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Samstag 02 Dezember 2006 01:00 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> Am Fre Dez 1 2006 schrieb Jarosław Staniek:
> > We know the benefits of having splitted Qt4 into gui and nongui libs.
> > Now, the question is: what's up at the packaging level?
>
> [...]
>
> > Quick search showed me Qt4 package as destributors provide it, is a the
> > same monolyth as Qt3 was.
>
> Debian and Kubuntu provide libqt4-core and libqt4-gui. The dependencies
> are:
>
> libqt4-core: libc6, libdbus-1-3, libfontconfig1, libgcc1, libglib2.0-0,
>       libstdc++6, zlib1g
> libqt4-gui: ...., libx11-6, ....
>
> So, Kubunto alredy splits the libraries in exactly that way. If your
> distribution does not, complain to them as they are messing up...

Yeah, Jaroslaw's "quick search" must have been very quick as OpenSUSE also 
splits. But nice way to create a neat threat

Greetings, Stephan