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I'm getting fed up with trying to get qtwebengine-5.foo to compile. I want a new challenge 
IIUC Qt6 is now unmasked but still, obviously, ~amd64 etc. Anyone know if it is just a case of changing accept_keywords, or does KDE need tweaking to match? Again IIUC, it appears to be slotted; does that mean I could install both and switch between them - I see no "eselect qt" module?
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The kde ebuilds are not yet ready for QT6.
Not even those included 'KDE team's testing overlay'.
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Qt6 itself is mostly fine, but there's not much that use it in the tree currently (few odd packages, some require it, some optional), and in-tree kde/plasma stuff does not (Edit: it'll just keep using qt5 even if you have qt6 around on top, which coexists fine -- no eselect involved). So unless you got some package you want to use Qt6 with and the ebuild supports it, it's not going to be of any real use.
I use qtwebengine:6 with qutebrowser-9999[qt6] fwiw (its qt6 support is not yet in a release, so 9999 only). For this package it's pretty worth it given the newer internal chromium version and many websites being broken with old qtwebengine:5
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 9:59 am Post subject: |
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| The wiki has an outline of how qt6 is going to be fitted in. |
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AH, thanks for that. I'll let the dogs sleep.
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Someone woke the dogs!
I noted that portage now includes lyx-2.4.0 in ~amd64, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I was perplexed to see it pull in Qt6, and what's more I find Qt6 isn't keyworded.
But I ran emerge --update --deep ... yesterday, and haven't sync'ed since then, so why didn't Qt get upgraded? Ah well, all learning opportunities are to be appreciated.
Would it be a good idea to update my system to Qt6?
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| Goverp wrote: | | Would it be a good idea to update my system to Qt6? |
If you merge a package that requires (or supports with USE="qt6") qt6, it will be pulled in. Emerging qt6 without having anything that needs it will give you nothing. Unless you want to develop with it, of course.
Personally, I have enabled the qt6 USE flag globally, and it pulled in 12 qt6 packages via the installed packages that support this USE flag.
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Ah, thanks, I see. I thought that Qt6 would overwrite Qt5 and suddenly everything would be using the new stuff, leading to exciting times. So instead it looks like lyx will be a nice test for me.
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