From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 22:57:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87tw44n1gy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170527170600.GA16269@jasmine> <87tw46140a.fsf@netris.org> <87a85yf1fj.fsf@elephly.net> <592ACB5B.8000403@crazy-compilers.com> <20170528184450.GD15883@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF5G9-0004xV-Vt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 16:57:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dF5G5-0004yi-4u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2017 16:57:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170528184450.GD15883@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sun, 28 May 2017 14:44:50 -0400") 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: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 03:06:35PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: >> Am 27.05.2017 um 23:13 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: >> > I think it would be better to remove libwmf. >> +1 > > Something to consider is that many of our packages can be described as > unmaintained and full of bugs. And even the packages that are maintained > may be full of bugs, too. True. The best solution would be for our OS to run every program in an isolated environment, like Plash or like Qubes. That would allow us to live with these bugs somewhat more peacefully. We should work in that direction, maybe using containers, which are imperfect but readily available and an improvement over the status quo. In the meantime, we probably need to take care of our packages though, and provide security fixes or remove them. Given what you and Ricardo wrote about libwmf, it seems to me that removing it would be wise. Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99.