[PyKDE] PyQt4

[Patrick Stinson]

On 5/12/06, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> well, gentoo is meant to be a highly customizable distribution. The
> nice thing about gentoo is that you don't really *have* to customize
> everything. It is my opinion that the installation contains nothing
> out of the ordinary for that type of person that is trying to get this
> beta version of pyqt running.
>
> - make your filesystem
> - unpack the package manager
> - $ emerge kde
>
> The nice thing about gentoo is the package managment code, if you
> don't mind compiling everything. Now, if a pkg system is known the be
> very reliable where you don't have to futz with the builds, all you
> have to pay for a system-optimized environment is compile time. Plus,
> its written in python.
>
> Again, if you are going so far as writing code in anything other than
> a canned and got-you-by-the-you-know-whats IDE, slapping an OS on your
> disk is probably not the best route for you. I found PyQt4 to build
> very easily using the default gentoo setup, and I'd be happy to offer
> any assistance getting it together.
>
> On 5/12/06, Lee Braiden <lee.b at digitalunleashed.com> wrote:
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > On Friday 12 May 2006 07:03, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> > > or just get gentoo
> >
> > I tried Gentoo before, and went back to debian.  It's supposed to have
> > binaries so you don't have to compile everything, but I found it compiling
> > lots of stuff anyway.  And, the configuration system seems to be based on
> > compiling, rather than runtime configuration, so I don't really get how you
> > can customise the config without waiting for days for everything to compile.
> >
> > If you happen to know where I'm going wrong, I might give it another shot :)
> >
> > --
> > Lee Braiden
> > http://DigitalUnleashed.com
> >
> > "Visions without implementation are hallucinations."
> >
>
>
> --
> Patrick Kidd Stinson
> http://www.patrickkidd.com/
> http://pkaudio.sourceforge.net/
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>


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