Re: Building gpgme with Qt support?

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 08:23:56PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since version 1.7 gpgme [1] includes both the C++ bindings (former
> package: gpgmepp) and the Qt-Framework API (former package qgpgme, not
> in guix).
> 
> Our gpgme package is currently build *without* support for Qt:
> 
> checking for GPGME_QT... checking for GPGME_QTTEST... ./configure: line 
> 18672: : command not found
> configure: WARNING:
> ***
> *** Qt5 (Qt5Core) not found Qt Binding will be disabled.
> ***
> 
> The major draw-back of adding these bindings is that this would install
> qtcore (and all it's dependencies) for any application using gpgme.
> 
> How can we avoid this?

Could we make a new package qt-gpgme that inherits from gpgme and provides a
QT-enabled gpgme??