On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 at 20:21, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer, le lun. 19 août 2024 20:17:08 -0300, a > ecrit: > > But users would love to have something like 'qt6-full-dev'. And the > > reason we never provided them with this meta-package is that package > > maintainers would use it almost everywhere, dragging the whole Qt > > installation on each package depending on it... This is a _huge_ waste > > of resources and buildd time (or is it not??) > > It is, but also on maintainer systems when testing in bare chroots etc. > So I don't think maintainers would use it that much in practice. > (similarly to no package currently build-depending on texlive-full)
Oh, we've seen that before, that's why we did not add these metapackages to start with :-/ Now back at that time things weren't as big as the latest Qt 5 or 6. Thanks for the feedback! -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer https://perezmeyer.com.ar/
