[Interest] My first 5 years with Qt and 2 suggestions

[Richard Weickelt]

On 10.05.2019 21:13, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:58:47 PDT Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> For my use I rebuilt the Qt packages from https://launchpad.net/~beineri
>> for stretch; they install into /opt rather than replacing the system
>> packages, so you don't have the issues with Qt and other
>> reverse-dependencies. I think the Qt project could supply packages along
>> these lines, rather than trying to replace the system Qt.
> 
> Why can't you install the binaries published by the Qt Project in /opt?

You mean https://www.qt.io/offline-installers ?
You may want to try to install them:
- in a headless environment in a script
- to another location than /opt/Qt/xxx
- with only some components included