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Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord
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Efraim Flashner |
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Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord |
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Sat, 14 Jul 2018 22:26:44 +0300 |
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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?
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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,
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- Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord, Nils Gillmann, 2018/07/14
- 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