Re: Building AbiWord without libwmf and removing libwmf from Guix

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:57:49PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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?

I've attached a patch to remove it.

0001-gnu-Remove-libwmf.patch
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