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Bug#1005835: qtbase-opensource-src: What's the recommended way to setup Debian for development using Qt?



Source: qtbase-opensource-src
X-Debbugs-Cc: d3faultdotxbe@gmail.com
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Once upon a time we could just do:
# apt install qt-sdk
This gave you an environment for developing with Qt, but actually installed
too much because it installed Qt Creator (and Qt can be used headless).

qt-sdk was never updated to Qt5, so in later Debian releases:
# apt install qt5-default
Was my go-to and I could even add 'qtcreator' if I wanted GUI stuff.

But now qt5-default is gone and there's a clusterfrick ton of qt5 packages,
none of which jump out at me as being all encompassing.

So what exactly is the recommended way to get a dev env for developing with Qt?
rdepends on qt5-default gives me:
# apt install qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools
But that's annoying to type and difficult to memorize. I do rdepends every time.
We need a metapackage or virtualpackage or somethin...

Thanks,
d3fault

p.s. I mean development *with* Qt, not development *of* Qt

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled


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