Re: [gentoo-dev] Enable "gdk-pixbuf" in gnome sub-profiles

[Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>]

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