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#1 2015-05-13 05:12:10
- weirddan455
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Why so many qt5 rebuilds?
We're on our 7th rebuild of qt5 5.4.1. I know there's probably a good reason but can we at least separate the documentation? It's all HTML files so it's not like that needs to be rebuilt. It's getting a little irritating downloading 130MB 7 times...
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#2 2015-05-13 11:41:43
- Lone_Wolf
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Re: Why so many qt5 rebuilds?
qt5-doc appears to be an optional depedency for a few programs. do you really need it ?
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky
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#3 2015-05-13 12:21:02
- aexoxea
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Re: Why so many qt5 rebuilds?
Per the commit log on Qt5 PKGBUILD, there have been four updates (and presumably four rebuilds) during May 2015. The commit messages and diffs on these suggest they have been to resolve various bugs.
Qt5 itself is a split package (it generates 24 packages from the single qt5 pkgbase, including qt5-doc). I can't say if there would be complications or inefficiencies from not re-upping all the packages as recompiled.
(Note that I am not a maintainer on this package; I was just curious about this since, like you, I had noticed a number of Qt5 rebuilds lately... which shows active maintainer interest 
).
Lone_Wolf makes a good point: one option is to uninstall if you don't need it. Another might be to add it to the IgnorePkg array pending 5.4.2 (or whatever the next version is).
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#4 2015-05-13 14:48:02
- sl1pkn07
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Re: Why so many qt5 rebuilds?
the last update is for https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44910
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#5 2015-05-13 14:57:05
- weirddan455
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Re: Why so many qt5 rebuilds?
Ah yea I guess if it's a split package the maintainer would have to do two PKGBUILDs instead of one which may not be worth his time. And I'm all for bug fixes so props to him for getting those out.
The reason I have qt5-doc is because I was fiddling with creating a qt5 app. I guess I could IgnorePkg on it next time. What would be really nice though is if we could get delta updates rolling. That should reduce the size of updates like this substantially.
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