From bddd22453dda8fba0e62ba78e32f17fe550a9494 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Sturmlechner Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:40:28 +0200 Subject: 2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump: Add news item Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner --- .../2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump.en.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump/2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump.en.txt (limited to '2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump/2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump.en.txt') diff --git a/2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump/2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump.en.txt b/2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump/2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad4db1d --- /dev/null +++ b/2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump/2022-03-30-qt-5_15_3-bump.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Title: Qt 5.15.3 version bump with binary path changes +Author: Andreas Sturmlechner +Posted: 2022-03-30 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: >=dev-qt/qtcore-5.15.3 + +Up until Qt 5.15.2 we were using qtchooser to provide unversioned links to Qt +binaries in PATH, like qmake, moc, qmljs etc. Starting with 5.15.3 [1] such +links will be installed by each respective Qt package and '5'-version-suffixed, +e.g. qmake becomes qmake5, qml becomes qml5 etc., mirroring Qt6. + +If you develop with Qt5 and rely on unversioned binaries for your workflow, +dev-qt/qtchooser as a tool for quickly switching between multiple Qt +installations (e.g. Qt3, Qt4 and Qt5) can still be manually installed. The +'default' Qt version in PATH is then controlled via config in +/etc/xdg/qtchooser. + +Otherwise, dev-qt/qtchooser will be slated for cleanup on your next +emerge --depclean run. + +[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/ +5f3681b5b28dabeb5339d44e9585d29f -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad