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

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

[Pacho Ramos]

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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?

Thanks and best regards

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

[Mart Raudsepp]

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

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

[Pacho Ramos]

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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 :-/

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