From: Landry Breuil Subject: Re: remove x11/qt5/qtwebkit from x11/py-qt5 To: Rafael Sadowski Cc: ports Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 18:31:06 +0100 Le Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 02:34:35PM +0100, Rafael Sadowski a écrit : > On Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 08:02:41PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote: > > Le Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 10:26:18AM +0000, Stuart Henderson a écrit : > > > 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. > > > > yes, and https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/55627 starts paving the way > > for qtwebengine - at some point qgis will switch to qt6 which doesnt > > have qtwebkit, so qtwebengine support will have to come (as > > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/54965 said, with things that might > > not be possible yet...) > > It is confusing to follow all these PRs as a release note. > > > > > but i can readd the dep on qtwebkit if it's here to stay in the > > portstree a little longer :) > > > > I have spoken to Stuart, we will stay with qtwebkit until qgis is ready. > Can you keep an eye on it? sure, i'll make sure to switch to qt6 and to qtwebengine as soon as upstream deems it 'ready' :)