* hplip qt
@ 2018-06-21 21:13 Nils Gillmann
2018-06-21 21:53 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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From: Nils Gillmann @ 2018-06-21 21:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: guix-devel
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> added in 407ef4b38ad394e0b63320b029d95afdd3da6888
support for Qt to Hplip. What feels like a lifetime ago, my patch with the same
intention was reviewed and to be worked in a separation of Qt and hplip, which
I found reasonable at that time but drowned in all the branches I had back then.
Not forgotten though, just very low priority.
I still find Qt as a dependency for hplip unreasonable. Can we split the package up
as we did for Octave?
Thanks.
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* Re: hplip qt
2018-06-21 21:13 hplip qt Nils Gillmann
@ 2018-06-21 21:53 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice @ 2018-06-21 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nils Gillmann; +Cc: guix-devel
Hullo ng0,
Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> added in
> 407ef4b38ad394e0b63320b029d95afdd3da6888
> support for Qt to Hplip. What feels like a lifetime ago, my
> patch with the same
> intention was reviewed and to be worked in a separation of Qt
> and hplip, which
> I found reasonable at that time but drowned in all the branches
> I had back then.
Where was this?
> I still find Qt as a dependency for hplip unreasonable.
One possible problem is that our PyQt doesn't benefit from the
modularity (FWIW) of our Qt packages. I doubt HP's widgets need
qtmultimedia, qtwebchannel, or qtlocation, but there they are
anyway, probably wasting a few hundred MiB in total.
> Can we split the package up as we did for Octave?
If you can separate the GUI tools from the driver without breaking
anything — including user expectations — go for it! Any idea how
other distributions handle this?
I agree that a separate UI output (ideally) or package would be
nicer than the monolith we have now, but I don't find an unusable
UI to be in any way more ‘reasonable’ than adding the right
dependency to fix it.
Kind regards,
T G-R
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