From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: qtwenengine anybody? Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:22:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87a77sqtdq.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87immgqryj.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56204) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1igsCJ-000102-G4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:22:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1igsCH-0000YF-QE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:22:11 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:57848) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1igsCH-0000Vo-GQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:22:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87immgqryj.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US 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: mike.rosset@gmail.com, Pierre Neidhardt Cc: Guix-devel Hi, I'm glad to see there already has been some effort on this. I'll comment on the issue. Am 16.12.19 um 15:13 schrieb mike.rosset@gmail.com: > This new monolithic package stills suffers from the same issue as my > modular qtwebengine. In that there are many in tree third party > dependencies. It's not trivial to simply switch to guix inputs for > these. IMO we should focus on a stand-alone qtwebengine package to avoid having packages depending on a *huge* monolith. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |