Subject: Re: bug#34849: Compilation issues with g++ on some files

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:09:21 -0400

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  > But there's no conflict yet, is there?

The conflict exists now -- between keeping a vital option
unimpeded in the future, and inviting an impediment to it.

  > Also, if Qt is installed on many systems as a system library, we could
  > use it as a system component, couldn't we?

For distribution of executables on those specific systems, yes.  But
that doesn't eliminate the problem I'm concerned with.

My decision is still no.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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