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[PATCH 0/2] Remove monolithic qt5 (and other unused package)

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel <at> crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: 37908 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#37908] [PATCH 0/2] Remove monolithic qt5 (and other unused package)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:43:00 +0300

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 01:34:49PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 09:20:56PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> > The monolithic `qt` package was only used as a base to inhert `qt-4` from.
> > 
> > For testing this change does not change qt-4 in any way:
> > - run ./pre-inst-env guix build qt <at> 4.8.7
> > - apply patch
> > - again run ./pre-inst-env guix build qt <at> 4.8.7
> > 
> > -> qt <at> 4.8.7 will *not* be build again. To avoid any rebuilds, I even refrined
> > from sorting the inputs. :-)
> > 
> > The other patch removes a package which has been merged into qtdeclarative as
> > of Qt 5.8.0 and is not used anywhere.
> > 
> > 
> > Hartmut Goebel (2):
> >   gnu: Remove qtdeclarative-render2d.
> >   gnu: Remove monolithic qt5.
> > 
> >  gnu/packages/qt.scm | 328 +++++++-------------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 279 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> On qtdeclarative-render2d, I think the only reason to possibly keep it
> is Debian old-stable (or old-old stable, not sure) packaged the 5.7
> series, but I don't think they even used it for anything.
> 
> Very much vote yes on monolithic qt-5.
> 

Actually, we should probably depreciate it and mark it superseded by
qtbase for a while. Packages in channels won't have it ripped out, but
if/when they fail to build they'll find out that its modular qt only
now.

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