[poky] Crazy QT packaging

[Gary Thomas]

On 11/07/2010 12:29 AM, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Gary Thomas
>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:58 PM
>>
>> I just tried to install 'fotowall', a QT application.  Much to
>> my surprise, a whole bunch of QT packages were installed, many
>> of which I have no need and don't understand why they are "required".
>>
>> In particular, the examples and demos, plus QT-designer (I have
>> no development tools installed on my platform).
>>
>> Any ideas why this happens?  how to fix it?
>>
>> Install log is attached.
>>
>
> qt4.inc recommends all packages but some of them should be selectively
> depended by actual recipe. Could you report a bug for it?

Done. Bug #524

> BTW, fotowall doesn't really work yet. There're several hard bugs reported around
> fotowall, e.g. 348, 349, 336, 280, ...)

Thanks for the info - I just picked 'fotowall' as an example Qt application.
Of course, now I have the whole example/demo set loaded... :-)

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