Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> 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’.