[Slackbuilds-users] Qt6 libs proposal for SlackBuilds

[Antonio Leal]

On 10/26/25 12:09, Christoph Willing wrote:
> On 26/10/25 22:25, Antonio Leal via SlackBuilds-users wrote:
>>
>> Qt6 could be better in SlackBuilds.
>>
>> The fact is some packages just build with older/archived versions of 
>> Qt6, others require recent ones and don't build with the former.
>>
>> Then, within each Qt6 release, there are the extension&submodules, 
>> for sure not all required for our current SlackBuilds apps.
>>
>>
>> SlackBuilds should not have just one "Qt6" but several, maybe 
>> implementing just the minimum libs required, depending to the apps 
>> requirements (at maintainer request)
>>
>> Location should be something like, for example, /opt/Qt6.4.3 ... 
>> /opt/Qt6.9.3 ..etc.
>>
>>
>> Take MuseScore: It is _validated_ against Qt6.9.1 and it needs 
>> submodules qtbase, qt5compat, qtnetworkauth, qtscxml, qttools, 
>> qtdeclarative and qtsvg, not the whole thing
>>
>
> I believe qt6 has no active maintainer at the moment. Are you 
> volunteering?

LinRs is the new maintiner of Qt6.


> If so, remember that building a specialised version with minimum 
> extensions & modules that just suit one of your own pet projects means 
> that it may not be suitable for anything else. A big monster version 
> with everything possible included (like -current?) will be much more 
> useful to SBo users.
>
Agreed but why taking build time and disk space if it is not required?


> chris
>
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