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Re: Help needed with security updates for Qt
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Help needed with security updates for Qt |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 23:15:03 +0200 |
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宋文武 <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I'd like to try re-package qt5 with submodules, and drop QtWebEngine.
>>> As same as Debian and NixOS did.
>>
>> And Fedora. Ricardo found this insightful discussion:
>>
>> http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2015-February/019960.html
>>
>> +1 for removing QtWebEngine and thus have a snippet that removes the
>> bundled Chromium altogether.
> Well, by build with submodule tarballs [1], Qt5 will split into various
> packages:
> qtbase, qtsvg, qtx11extras, etc.
> The current monolithic qt package will be deprecated.
Ah OK, didn’t know that.
> It seems that some hacks are needed, basically:
> - when build:
> Make a 'qt.conf' and union the releated 'lib' and 'mkspecs' for
> qmake. Should do in 'qmake-build-system'.
> FYI: nixpkgs's recipes [2] and qmake reference [3].
>
> - when run:
> Set 'QT_PLUGIN_PATH' and other variables with wrapper and/or
> profile envs.
>
> And I believe this have to be done if we want to package KDE5,
> since KF5 is a set of plugins for Qt.
Sounds like a good plan. Thanks for looking into it!
Ludo’.