Bug 299401

Summary:	app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs no longer contains qt3
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matthew Kern <pyrophobicman>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde-sunset.git
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Description Matthew Kern 2010-01-02 22:00:16 UTC

For a few binary-only applications, I, for one, still need qt3 libs for my amd64 multilib system. After updating my system, the new packages for emul-linux-x86-qtlibs have only qt4.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge the new emul-linux-x86-qtlibs
2. find an empty /usr/qt/3/lib32

Actual Results:  
Only qt-3 libs are available.

Expected Results:  
Either a USE flag to pull in qt3 libs for this package should be in place, or a new package should come into the tree with the qt3 libs.

the /usr/qt/3/lib32 directory is created, it seems, but without anything in it.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-01-02 22:09:09 UTC

Qt3 is in process of being deprecated, see bug 283429. 
Also, nothing in Portage needs 32bit Qt3 libraries.
So, yes, they were dropped in purpose.

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-01-02 22:35:46 UTC

btw,

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde-sunset.git

also in layman, is the graveyard for qt3/kde3 ebuilds

it's user maintained