From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: texmaker, Qt and Chromium Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 10:21:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20161008082110.GA3374@jocasta.intra> References: <877f9kufxx.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SUOF0GtieIMvvwua" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36770) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsmso-0002HT-Hf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 04:21:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsmsl-00044p-CY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 04:21:26 -0400 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:57244 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsmsl-00041O-3o for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 04:21:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877f9kufxx.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 09:17:30PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi Guix, =20 our build of the ???texmaker??? package is broken ever since we disabl= ed the webkit module of our Qt package. I???m currently looking into packagi= ng up the needed Qt modules, but the obvious question remains: do we want this? ???qtwebengine??? not only bundles chromium, chromium itself al= so bundles a whole bunch of other stuff. =20 Personally, I think it???s acceptable to package ???qtwebengine??? bec= ause ultimately it???s up to the Qt and Chromium developers to keep their software secure ??? and it???s up to the developers of software like Texmaker to choose their dependencies wisely. As long as we keep Chromium out of our default ???qt??? package, thereby preventing it fr= om being installed for every Qt application, I think we???re good. =20 What do you think? The alternative is to drop Texmaker and all the other packages that depend on Chromium as distributed by Qt. =20 I thought that Chromium was non-free ?? J' =20 --=20 Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlf4rHYACgkQimdxnC3oJ7MzOACaAhDQho6V8RUzLl8VvJJkW4qu BIMAn0MCDd3PGwtBZCnltXP0gxYvxHl+ =ZDoY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua--