Only one qt version on the Ubuntu Desktop iso?

Neal Gompa ngompa13 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 18:10:47 UTC 2016


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> The only reason the Xenial Ubuntu Desktop iso currently has qt4 still
> included is because the "integration components for softwares using that
> toolkit" are Recommends (appmenu-qt, sni-qt, fcitx-frontend-qt4).
>
> The default installation has no actual use for those but removing them
> would mean that an Unity user installing some qt4 software wouldn't get
> integrated menus/indicators/input method.
>
> We could make qt4 recommends them, but then they would be pulled in on
> other desktops environment where they are not needed ... how would other
> flavors feel about that?
> If that's not an option does somebody have a better suggestion/idea how
> we could get those installed for Unity users when required?
>
> Unsure if that's still something we might still want to do this cycle,
> I'm at least mentioning it in case somebody feels like working on those
> changes...
>

Isn't Qt 4 EOL now? Why not move Qt 4 stuff to universe?



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