Re: git: 998a6a9b2c67 - main - devel/qcoro: Unflavorize

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 10:21:44AM +0000, Jason E. Hale wrote:
> commit 998a6a9b2c6720c05155afe970c62278783d7684
> 
>   devel/qcoro: Unflavorize
> 
>   The qt5 flavor doesn't have any consumers and we need to work towards
>   eliminating qt5 from the ports tree.

I don't know why would we want to remove stable and KDE-maintained Qt 5
but that would probably annoy users of popular software like GoldenDict*
for which no good alternatives exist.  Most of the users hardly care for
Qt version number, but want to keep using their beloved programs.

From a porter's PoV, our Qt 6 support is not on par with Qt 5 and leaves
a lot to be improved, from hardcoded unnecessary dependencies on LLVM
and Wayland to poor USE_QT granularity; I've touched those in somewhat
greater detail in my previous email.  As of today, Qt 5 is by far a better
option for FreeBSD ports than half-baked Qt 6.

./danfe

*) https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/pull/1542#issuecomment-2361253744