Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord

[Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hello,
>
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>>> It sounds like adding Qt to hplip adds plenty of GUI goodies. 
>>> Could we
>>> leave hplip as-is and have sane-backends depend on a Qt-less
>>> hplip-minimal or hplip-nogui, since it shouldn't need any GUI 
>>> from hplip?
>>
>> I haven't looked closely, but that sounds like a good approach.
>
> +1 for not having Qt in %desktop-services.
>
> Ludo’.

I really think that having Qt in %desktop-services creates an 
issue
regarding not only the necessary dependencies, but also the fact 
that Qt
has a propensity to issue non-free or semi-free components in 
relevant
updates to their libraries and framework. I only worry about the
possible predictability of this happening to the required 
dependencies
and ultimately causing a conflict with the freedom of the 
end-user.

I might be over-thinking it.

But, another issue is that some people with limited computer 
resources
might find that having these Qt dependencies to be a real problem.

-- 
Brett M. Gilio
Free Software Foundation, Member
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