[Interest] Unrequested Qt components being installed

[Kai Köhne]

Hi,

These dependencies are hardcoded in the Qt Online Installer (or rather, the metadata of the packages). In particular, the MinGW toolchain is a dependency of the matching Qt package.

This ensures that things work ‘out of the box’ in Qt Creator, allowing you to start developing with Qt / MinGW without any additional installations & setup processes. Now it is indeed superfluous if you already have the same MinGW toolchain locally; however, it must be the exact same toolchain, otherwise you may encounter some strange errors. And since the MinGW toolchain size is still rather reasonable - at least compared to other downloads - I think it’s a reasonable tradeoff.

Kai



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From: Interest <interest-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of Bob Babcock <wssddc at wssddc.com>
Date: Saturday, 22. November 2025 at 07:35
To: interest at lists.qt-project.org <interest at lists.qt-project.org>
Subject: [Interest] Unrequested Qt components being installed

I'm installing Qt 6.10.1 right now, and like previous installs, it insists
on giving me a few options that are explicitly not selected:

Charts
Shader tools
MinGW 13.1 compiler

I have the MinGW complier installed outside of Qt, so this is a moderate
amount of wasted space, the other 2 matter less.  I am selecting the MinGW
libraries, so yes I do need the compiler, but I akready have it.

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