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Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord
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Nils Gillmann |
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Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord |
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Sat, 14 Jul 2018 20:32:25 +0000 |
Efraim Flashner transcribed 2.9K bytes:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 02:00:38PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> > Hi Tobias,
> >
> > address@hidden (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice) writes:
> >
> > > nckx pushed a commit to branch master
> > > in repository guix.
> > >
> > > commit 407ef4b38ad394e0b63320b029d95afdd3da6888
> > > Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Tue Jun 19 20:02:42 2018 +0200
> > >
> > > gnu: hplip: Add Qt GUI support.
> > >
> > > Some tools (like ‘hp-toolbox’) still refuse to launch, but at least
> > > others (like ‘hp-systrax’) now seem to work.
> > >
> > > * gnu/packages/cups.scm (hplip)[arguments]: Add #configure-flags for
> > > Qt.
> > > [inputs]: Add python-gobject and python-pyqt.
> >
> > Until this commit, it was possible to build a desktop system without Qt.
> > No longer.
> >
> > This commit effectively added most of Qt 5 as a new dependency of
> > 'colord' (via 'sane-backends' and 'hplip'), which in turn means that
> > _any_ GuixSD system that uses %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5
> > libraries, including:
> >
> > qtbase
> > qtconnectivity
> > qtdeclarative
> > qtlocation
> > qtmultimedia
> > qtsensors
> > qtserialport
> > qtsvg
> > qttools
> > qtwebchannel
> > qtwebsockets
> > qtx11extras
> > qtxmlpatterns
> >
> > I would greatly prefer to preserve a straightforward way to build a
> > desktop system, e.g. a GNOME system, without building Qt 5.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
> It sounds like adding Qt to hplip adds plenty of GUI goodies. 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 from hplip?
Yes, please. This was my criticism for not making a hplip-qt like I was told
when I worked on it.
Furtermore it might be time to make a "minimal" (subjective) and
"normal" desktop sets for services.
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- %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Mark H Weaver, 2018/07/14
- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Efraim Flashner, 2018/07/14
- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord,
Nils Gillmann <=
- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Mark H Weaver, 2018/07/16
- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/07/19
- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Efraim Flashner, 2018/07/19
- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/07/26
- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Mark H Weaver, 2018/07/27
- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Brett Gilio, 2018/07/19
- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Leo Famulari, 2018/07/19