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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] [RFC v2] [News Item] Qt 5.15.3 version bump with binary path changes
From:       Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2022-03-28 11:16:20
Message-ID: 25363518.1r3eYUQgxm () tuxbook
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Title: Qt 5.15.3 version bump with binary path changes
Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
Posted: 2022-03-28
Revision: 1 
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: dev-qt/qtchooser

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
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