[Bug 895149] Review Request: qtchooser - Qt Chooser

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895149

--- Comment #6 from Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ---
First off, for better or worse, fedora's policies do not require justification
for a package review.  So, arguing against a package in it's review on this
basis, is... pointless.

Now, *if* I were to make a case... :) I would say that qtchooser is the tool
that Qt upstream came up with to standardize a way for developers to use/switch
Qt development environments.  Other distros are supporting it, and I think
fedora should too.  I argue not supporting qtchooser would make fedora look bad
and hurt it's reputation.

Second, I do agree that better solutions than qtchooser exist, and fedora's Qt
packaging already does does support (imo) better options, like manually
adjusting paths or using -qt4 and/or -qt5 postfix on related binaries as
mentioned.  However, that does not preclude supporting *yet another option*. 
This latest packaging implementation is careful to minimize side-effects, is
not installed or used by default, and is strictly optional.

As for binary location, I personally don't care all that much
(/usr/lib/bikeshed anyone?).  Strictly, our guidelines allow either, and I only
chose /usr/lib (similar to ccache) because I personally consider /usr/libexec
to be non-user-facing.  I don't consider either option *wrong*.

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