[mythtv-users] Potential issues with Qt 5.7.1?

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Wed Dec 21 10:33:07 UTC 2016


On 16/12/16 21:36, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17 December 2016 at 08:11, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Qt 5.7.1 is in fact available in portage. To minimize the number of
>>> times I have to build Qt5 I'd sort of like to go with that, but I'm a
>>> little leery of being that bleeding edge. Is anyone out there using
>>> MythTV with Qt 5.7.1, or is anyone aware of any issues I might have
>>> with it?
>>  why would there be issues?
>>
>> using with 5.7 on mac just fine...
> 
> Thanks! Good to know.
> 
> I wasn't too happy when I noticed that Qt 5.7.1 was trying to pull in
> gtk3 which in turn pulls in dbus (which I do NOT use and want no part
> of). However I discovered that removing the gtk USE flag from
> dev-qt/qtgui prevents this...wheew.
> 

Works just fine on Fedora 25.

It's a shame you don't want DBus, that's how we now control the
screensaver, and it works nicely.


Regards
Stuart




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