From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Default USE flags for net-libs/webkit-gtk
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 13:00:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1543662017.13711.7.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeCYxMm6tmYAmiJECYcfJScJbYuGCkPWCBD3tt8La8okrmrFw@mail.gmail.com>
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Ühel kenal päeval, R, 09.11.2018 kell 10:59, kirjutas Yongming:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if there is a place to read previous discussions for a
> package/ebuild. Specifically, I am interested in the rationale behind
> having the "geolocation" flag on by default for net-libs/webkit-gtk.
>
> Currently on a desktop, having "geolocation" pulls in "geoclue"
> (which
> in turn pulls in "modemmanager" and so on), which is seemingly
> unnecessary in my case. I understand that these dependencies can be
> customised via /etc/portage/package.use/*, but I am also curious
> about
> the thinking behind net-libs/webkit-gtk having "geolocation" flag on
> by default.
We were asked this off-list. Now catching up, it seems that didn't
reach the list too, so here's belated information to others as well:
geolocation is a browser engine feature that is expected to be built by
default. Yes, it very likely also is default enabled by upstream, but
we also want to provide an out of the box good experience for browsers
built on top of webkit-gtk (such as epiphany and midori), which means
working geolocation support. Thus the default remains.
However, based on that query, we instead ended up removing the default
enabling of USE=modemmanager from geoclue itself. As a result,
odemmanager is not pulled in anymore for webkit-gtk without user making
that choice via enabling USE=modemmanager due to actually having a
modem (think 4G mobile modems, not the dial-up kind).
Mart
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2018-11-09 2:59 [gentoo-user] Default USE flags for net-libs/webkit-gtk Yongming
2018-11-09 13:43 ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-12-01 11:00 ` Mart Raudsepp [this message]
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