From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Gilio Subject: Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:57:51 -0500 Message-ID: <877elr3vf4.fsf@posteo.net> References: <20180621165415.31705.87450@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180621165418.1C11520349@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <874lh1snnd.fsf_-_@netris.org> <20180714192644.GH4585@macbook41> <874lgzunv9.fsf@netris.org> <87r2jzqnrk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53769) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgEEq-0002FE-Hw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:05:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgEEm-0001Lw-2X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:05:20 -0400 Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:59673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgEEl-0001G9-J1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:05:15 -0400 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0EA521065 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:05:07 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <87r2jzqnrk.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Hello, > > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> Efraim Flashner writes: >>> It sounds like adding Qt to hplip adds plenty of GUI goodies.=20 >>> 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=20 >>> from hplip? >> >> I haven't looked closely, but that sounds like a good approach. > > +1 for not having Qt in %desktop-services. > > Ludo=E2=80=99. I really think that having Qt in %desktop-services creates an=20 issue regarding not only the necessary dependencies, but also the fact=20 that Qt has a propensity to issue non-free or semi-free components in=20 relevant updates to their libraries and framework. I only worry about the possible predictability of this happening to the required=20 dependencies and ultimately causing a conflict with the freedom of the=20 end-user. I might be over-thinking it. But, another issue is that some people with limited computer=20 resources might find that having these Qt dependencies to be a real problem. --=20 Brett M. Gilio Free Software Foundation, Member https://parabola.nu | https://emacs.org