This is where the Gentoo Qt team develops and maintains ebuilds for
experimental Qt versions (pre-releases and "live" code from git) and
Qt related packages. For your convenience we provide some sets and
package.keyword files.
The overlay is hosted on Github and on the official Gentoo overlays infrastructure at
Please note that we use the following versioning scheme:
- 4.x.y_beta, 4.x.y_rc and so on are official pre-releases.
You don't need to emerge the Qt ebuilds specifically, they are normally pulled
in as dependencies for packages that use Qt. But you may want to have all of
Qt installed, for example if you are a developer or tester. In that case we
recommend you copy the most applicable set to your /etc/portage/sets/
directory, rename it (to prevent portage error on set redefinition), and
customize it to your own wishes.
KDE users should note that at this point they need to use the media-libs/phonon package instead of dev-qt/qtphonon. As a result we have commented out qtphonon in the qt-all-live-kde set. Apart from that, KDE can use the official Qt version, but has specific patches in kde-qt that should result in a smoother KDE user experience.
Non-KDE users should stick to the official Qt packages from Digia / Qt Project.
If you have questions, you can find us on IRC in #gentoo-qt on Freenode or at [email protected].
Bugs should be reported on https://bugs.gentoo.org. Be sure to include [qt overlay] in the summary of your bug report.
Users wanting to contribute should first read the Qt4 ebuild guide.
Happy Qting!
The Gentoo Qt team