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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 <asturm@gentoo.org> +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 |