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From:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject:
Re: remove x11/qt5/qtwebkit from x11/py-qt5
To:
Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Cc:
Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Fri, 9 Feb 2024 10:26:18 +0000

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On 2024/02/09 10:14, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> Is the "remove qtwebkit" approach because it's causing an actual
> problem, or is it just that it's old? Can we switch to qtwebengine where
> possible but still keep qtwebkit for things where it's still needed
> for certain software to work properly? Rendering local HTML files isn't
> a particularly high security risk.
> 
> Regarding qgis, it seems they _can't_ use qtwebengine:
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/49512#issuecomment-1244676849

Aha - there is https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/53255 which has
been merged into git master, so this requirement might go away soon.