Re: git: 9d76916067d4 - main - Qt5: Update to 5.15.17 (getting down to the end)

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 10:35:45AM +0000, Jason E. Hale wrote:
> commit 9d76916067d420d8ea46077ba22e97ce3eaf195c
> 
>   Qt5: Update to 5.15.17 (getting down to the end)
> 
>   Upstream standard support for Qt5 is officially over. [1] In short,

Hi Jason,

Doesn't KDE maintain it now and plans to continue indefinitely?

>   that means get your ports off of Qt5 ASAP, especially end-user
>   applications. FreeBSD deprecation of Qt5 is coming soon!

There are several issues that do not make Qt 6 a drop-in replacement for
Qt 5 I'm afraid, both from user's and porter's PoV.  In no particular order:

USE_QT granularity.  Qt 5 is nicely fine-grained, while Qt 6 is more coarse
so one has to pull its bits in larger chunks.  This is especially annoying
because of some hard-coded dependencies.

devel/qt6-tools pulls LLVM, so I constantly have to patch it out.  I haven't
looked into this, but given my dirty hack works it shouldn't be hard to fix
this correctly and drop LLVM dependency.

Qt 6 unconditionally pulls Wayland (yes, even qt6-base).  I keep my systems
free of this filth so again have to patch the Makefiles.  Could we please
make it optional?

This is what I can say on top off my head, there are probably others but
deprecating Qt 5 and forcing everyone to move to Qt 6 without fixing these
would quite probably annoy a large fraction of our users.

./danfe