El dom, 04-08-2024 a las 00:44 +0300, Mart Raudsepp escribió:
> On Sat, 2024-08-03 at 16:04 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > The rationale is briefly explained at:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/910363
> > 
> > As gdk-pixbuf upstream is not including support for new formats,
> > people
> > usually need to manually enable "gdk-pixbuf" USE for important libs
> > such as libheif, libjxl, or libavif.
> > 
> > At least for Gnome environments, I think that the USE could be
> > globally
> > enabled as gdk-pixbuf is used everywhere and the dependency will be
> > installed anyway.
> > 
> > Any issues with enabling it for gnome profiles?
> 
> gdk-pixbuf modules are a bit of an attack surface, so I feel a bit
> uneasy about enabling it by default globally. Per-package enabling
> (package.use) feels a bit safer to me.
> It's also not a global USE flag and is used with different meaning
> (e.g. in swaybg, rxvt-unicode, w3m), though that might be more of an
> argument for default enabling for all packages in gnome profiles, as
> gdk-pixbuf is there anyways.
> 
> 
> Mart

Yeah, because of what you state in the second paragraph I would also
opt for enabling it globally in gnome profiles :-/