Re: [Flightgear-devel] CanvasPath.cxx requires cctype

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On 12/18/2016 12:01 PM, Florent Rougon wrote:
> James Turner <zak...@ma...> wrote:
>> I think my confusion here is that normally people have all of Qt,
>> installing it as discrete packages is confusing, I don’t know why the
>> distributions encourage that. My assumption was that if people were using
>> Qt5 at all, they would have the WebSockets module, so making it mandatory
>> (given that Qt5 was found!) was reasonable. Your experience suggests I’m
>> wrong about that.
>
> They do this to save space... People often complain when they have to install
> many dependencies, even if already packaged, and this segmentation of Qt lets
> one install only the libs that package-installed apps actually use. Nothing
> really new here.
>
> But as I said, installing the package is not a big problem.

$ sudo aptitude install libqt5webkit5-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0{a} gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0{a} 
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev{a} libgstreamer1.0-dev{a} libqt53d5{a} 
libqt5location5{a} libqt5location5-plugins{a}
   libqt5positioning5{a} libqt5positioning5-plugins{a} libqt5qml5{a} 
libqt5quick5{a} libqt5quickparticles5{a} libqt5quicktest5{a} libqt5sensors5{a} 
libqt5sensors5-dev{a} libqt5webkit5{a}
   libqt5webkit5-dev libxslt1-dev{a} qtdeclarative5-dev{a} qtlocation5-dev{a} 
qtpositioning5-dev{a} qtsensors5-dev{a}
0 packages upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 13.4 MB of archives. After unpacking 63.3 MB will be used.


yuck!




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