Static binary package for Linux

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 99

Someone in kde-apps.org asked for static binary package (presumeably for
Linux). This package will be then installed via the package manager and/or
unpacked to some directory. It's similar to Opera's static binaries.

Advantage:
* useful for those whose distributions do not have Qt4 yet
* for alpha/beta testers, it can be installed and removed (even locally)
without interfering the official package

Disadvantage:
* the package might be quite big
* might trigger conflict with the official/vendor's binary package
* might not follow system-wide UI style

Another potential solution: use Autopackage. Apparently there was once
Autopackage-d version of Scribus, which proved that it's feasible to
prepare Qt C++ program using Autopackage.

Reported by ariya.hidayat on 2007-07-27 15:59:54

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