qt5-qtenginio is obsolete

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Apr 20 22:34:05 UTC 2017


> On Apr 20, 2017, at 16:15, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:23:55PM +0000, Fielding, Eric J (329A) wrote:
>> I just did a similar “port selfupdate” and “port upgrade outdated” on
>> my other Mac, and I got the same error message when I tried to
>> uninstall qt5-qtenginio. This time, I did “port uninstall qt5
>> @5.6.2_0” first and then uninstalled qt5-qtenginio without any error.
>> It seems that the warning about breaking ports is for all the
>> installed ports, not just the active ones, which I did not realize
>> before. I also did a “port reclaim” to remove all the outdated ports
>> that might depend on the old qt5.
> 
> This is a bug. We've had a similar situation with a different qt5-* port
> where the maintainer added an upgrade path to deal with it
> automatically. I mentioned it in the ticket back then that we'd need the
> same thing for qt5-qtenginio, but it seems to have gotten lost.
> 
> Marcus: Can we add a deactivate hack for qt5-qtenginio, possibly for the
> qt5 port?

Are you sure? It doesn't sound like a bug... if qt5 @5.6.2 requires qt5-qtenginio, then isn't it proper for MacPorts to complain when trying to uninstall qt5-qtenginio if qt5 @5.6.2 is still installed>




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