From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk grumbles
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:09:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539F874F.8050904@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lno02m$vj9$1@ger.gmane.org>
On 17/06/2014 01:53, walt wrote:
> I'm sick of building webkit-gtk. My oldest machine (a dual-core AMD64) has been
> building webkit for 6 hours and still going :(
>
> Can anyone answer a few questions for me, please?
>
> 1) Why do we not have a binary webkit package in portage, like libreoffice-bin,
> firefox-bin, thunderbird-bin, etc?
Probably because there isn't a downloadable upstream binary?
LO and firefox have -bin ebuilds precisely because upstream provides one
(which gets installed in the same fashion Windows does it - unpack a blob)
>
> 2) Why does webkit-gtk drag in ruby and several ruby gems? I've wasted hours
> trying to untangle conflicts between multiple ruby versions, which I need *only*
> because webkit-gtk drags them in. I have no other need for ruby.
/var/log/portage/net-libs:webkit-gtk-2.4.3:20140605-010132.log:/usr/bin/ruby20
./Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/generate_offset_extractor.rb
./Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.asm
DerivedSources/JavaScriptCore/LLIntDesiredOffsets.h
/var/log/portage/net-libs:webkit-gtk-2.4.3:20140605-010132.log:/usr/bin/ruby20
./Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/asm.rb
./Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.asm
Programs/LLIntOffsetsExtractor DerivedSources/JavaScriptCore/LLIntAssembly.h
/var/log/portage/net-libs:webkit-gtk-2.4.3:20140605-010132.log:/usr/bin/ruby20
./Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/generate_offset_extractor.rb
./Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.asm
DerivedSources/JavaScriptCore/LLIntDesiredOffsets.h
/var/log/portage/net-libs:webkit-gtk-2.4.3:20140605-010132.log:/usr/bin/ruby20
./Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/asm.rb
./Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.asm
Programs/LLIntOffsetsExtractor DerivedSources/JavaScriptCore/LLIntAssembly.h
As to why webkit-gtk does *that*, you'll have to ask upstream.
Personally I think it's simply because they can and apparently perl,
python are not enough scripting languages to have on a box.
>
> 3) Why does webkit-gtk have a "spell" useflag? Why does an html rendering
> engine need a spellcheck function?
Ever typed a post into a web forum? Ever seen the red squigly lines
underneath typos? That's why.
There's also HTML rendering in mailer apps
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-17 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-16 23:53 [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk grumbles walt
2014-06-17 0:09 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2014-06-17 2:13 ` Philip Webb
2014-06-17 11:12 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-20 16:54 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-06-20 17:03 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-06-20 17:04 ` Alan McKinnon
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