[maemo-developers] How to to manually package Qt Mobility?

From: Marius Vollmer marius.vollmer at Nokia.com
Date: Wed Jul 21 17:50:28 EEST 2010
ext Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs> writes:

> It's probably not a good idea but you can work around the issue like
> the Qt smart installer does - omit any non-base firmware dependencies,
> and use a loader. That way the install will succeed, and then via the
> loader you can apt-get/application-manager install whatever you need
> on the first run of the application.

Ouch.  I was thinking along these lines, and it is a bit shocking that
people actually have done this and had to go to this length to work
around a shortcoming in the Application Manager...  I have to say I feel
quite bad about this now. :(
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